天
Symbols Nature
horizon
際
ㄊㄧㄢ ㄐㄧˋ tiān jì
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 far line where sky meets earth or sea; Chinese has no single character for it.
Before you commit
Choose with careThere is no single character meaning horizon. The literal term is three characters long, and 涯 alone reads as limit or edge, so 天際 is the practical choice.
Pairs well with天涯 means the ends of the earth and is far better known than any literal horizon word. It carries distance and separation.
At small sizes天際 is two characters of unequal weight, with 際 much denser. Set them at the same height or the pair looks lopsided.
Meaning
The edge of the sky; the horizon as seen, not measured.
The poetic choice, used of things vanishing into the distance.
Other characters for “horizon”
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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