湖
Symbols Nature
lake
ㄏㄨˊ hú
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.
A lake, still inland water broad enough to hold a horizon.
Before you commit
Choose with care湖 is neutral and geographic. It carries no calm or serene overtone by itself, whatever the English word suggests.
Pairs well with江湖 is a famous compound meaning the world of wanderers and martial artists, a completely different and much stronger idea.
At small sizesTwelve strokes in three vertical parts. It crowds when narrow, so give it width.
Meaning
Lake.
The plain character, used alone in place names such as West Lake.
Other characters for “lake”
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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