Symbols Nature
garden
ㄩㄢˊ yuán
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.
A garden as an enclosed cultivated place, made rather than found.
Before you commit
Choose with care園 also names schools, zoos and orchards, so it can read as an institution rather than a private garden.
At small sizesThirteen strokes inside a full box. The enclosure fills in at small sizes and turns into a solid square.
Cultural noteThe classical garden is a composed landscape of rock, water and framed views, not a lawn or a flower bed. That tradition stands behind 園, but the character does its daily work in 公園 park, 校園 campus and 花園 flower garden — the composed landscape is the resonance, not the first reading.
Meaning
Garden, park, enclosed grounds.
A walled enclosure in its written form, which matches the meaning exactly.
Other characters for “garden”
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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