草
Symbols Nature
grass
ㄘㄠˇ cǎo
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.
Grass and low plants generally, and by extension whatever is rough, common and hard to kill.
Before you commit
Choose with care草 also means rough or draft, as in 草稿 a draft and 草書 cursive script. In Mandarin internet writing it is additionally a stand-in for a common obscenity.
At small sizesTen strokes, wide and stable. Very forgiving small and on curves.
Cultural note野火燒不盡, 春風吹又生: wildfire cannot burn it out, spring wind brings it back. Grass in Chinese means the ordinary thing that survives everything.
Meaning
Grass, herb, weed; also rough, draft, unfinished.
The general word, with a useful second life meaning provisional or cursive.
Other characters for “grass”
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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