四
Symbols Nature
four seasons
季
ㄙˋ ㄐㄧˋ sì jì
Two versions of the same picture, and both are free with no account and no watermark. The first has no background at all, which is the one to send your artist — but a phone or computer photo viewer set to dark will show black strokes on dark grey and it can look like nothing downloaded. If that happens, use the second one: identical characters on a plain white background. Either way you get the characters on their own — the square and the faint guide lines you see above are not in the file. Each character is 1000px, so a two-character download is 2000×1000, and the script and layout are the ones you picked.
Script
Characters
Same in both
Layout
Rubbing mode: white on black, as a stone rubbing. The download is unaffected.
The full turn of the year; in Chinese a plain, factual phrase rather than a poetic one.
Before you commit
Choose with care四季 is flat and descriptive, like writing four seasons in English. 春秋 carries the sense of years passing, but also names a historical era and a classic text.
Pairs well with四季平安, peace through all four seasons, is a common New Year blessing and reads warmly.
At small sizesLight for a two-character phrase, five and eight strokes. Prints cleanly at small scale.
Meaning
The four seasons of the year.
The ordinary modern phrase, read instantly and without ambiguity.
Other characters for “four seasons”
What to do next
Pick the script and layout you want above, download the PNG, and send that file to your artist. Ask them to work from the file rather than redrawing the character freehand — that is where strokes go missing.
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