冰
Symbols Nature
glacier
川
ㄅㄧㄥ ㄔㄨㄢ bīng chuān
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 river of ice moving too slowly to see; a modern, descriptive term in Chinese.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means glacier. 冰 alone is just ice, and readers will not supply the rest, so use 冰川 or 冰河 if the glacier matters.
JapaneseJapanese writes ice as 氷 and glacier as 氷河. The traditional Chinese form is 冰, so the two languages differ visibly here.
At small sizes冰 is six strokes and 川 is three. The full phrase is unusually light and prints well small.
Meaning
Glacier, literally ice river.
The standard geographic term, plain and correct.
Other characters for “glacier”
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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