玉
Symbols Nature
jade
ㄩˋ yù
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.
Jade, the stone Chinese culture values above gold, and a standing image of a fine person.
Before you commit
Choose with care玉 is high praise for a person, but it is also strongly feminine in names and reads soft rather than tough.
At small sizesFive strokes. The lower dot is the only thing separating it from the character for king, so it must not be dropped or blurred.
Cultural noteJade outranks gold in Chinese esteem, and jade pendants are still worn as protection. The character carries that weight.
Meaning
Jade; also a compliment meaning fine, precious, flawless.
Used of people as often as of stone, always as praise.
Other characters for “jade”
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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