葉
Symbols Nature
leaf
ㄧㄝˋ yè
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 leaf on a plant, and one of the most common Chinese surnames besides.
Before you commit
Choose with care葉 is a top-ten surname, romanised Yeh or Ip. Standing alone it will read as a family name to a great many Chinese viewers before it reads as a leaf.
JapaneseShared glyph, read ha or you. In Japanese it also builds 言葉, meaning words, so the associations run in a different direction.
At small sizesThirteen strokes stacked vertically. The grass radical on top crowds easily, so give it room.
Meaning
A leaf; also a page or thin flat sheet. A very common surname.
The single character everyone knows, though the surname reading is strong.
Other characters for “leaf”
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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