霜
Symbols Nature
frost
ㄕㄨㄤ shuāng
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 white crystals left on a cold clear night, and by extension a cold, unapproachable manner.
Before you commit
Choose with care霜 is weather, not toughness. Readers link it to autumn, ageing and hard years rather than to a cool attitude.
JapaneseRead shimo in Japanese with the same meaning, so the glyph reads as Japanese just as readily as Chinese.
At small sizesSeventeen strokes with a dense lower half. It fills into a blot when small or wrapped on a curve.
Meaning
Frost; the white coating a freezing night leaves on grass and roofs.
The ordinary word for frost, and the one classical poetry uses for age and hardship.
Other characters for “frost”
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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