金
Symbols Nature
gold
ㄐㄧㄣ jīn
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.
Gold the metal, and the same character used for metal in general and for money.
Before you commit
Choose with care金 is read as metal or money at least as often as gold, and it is a common surname, so it can look like a name.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, where it also means gold and money and names Friday. It will not read as specifically Chinese.
At small sizesEight strokes with a clean triangular top. Scales down well.
Meaning
Gold; also metal in general, and money.
One of the five phases and a very common surname, so it reads broadly.
Other characters for “gold”
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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