墨
Symbols Beauty
ink
ㄇㄛˋ mò
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.
Ink - in Chinese specifically the solid stick ground on a stone. It also stands for writing and learning generally.
Before you commit
Choose with care墨 also means black or dark, and 墨守 means clinging stubbornly to old ways. The character is not purely about ink.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read boku or sumi, meaning the same solid ink. It is fully at home in either language.
At small sizesFifteen strokes, a heavy stack over the earth element. Dark and dense by nature; it needs size to keep its interior open.
Meaning
Ink; an ink stick. Also dark, and by extension book learning.
The ink of calligraphy, and the character in 胸無點墨, to have no learning at all.
Other characters for “ink”
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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