光
Symbols Nature
light
ㄍㄨㄤ guāng
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.
Light itself, and by extension glory, brightness and the honour of being seen well.
Before you commit
Choose with care光 also means used up or nothing left, as in eaten clean or broke. That colloquial sense is very common.
Pairs well with光明 means bright in the moral sense, as in an honest and open future. It is stronger than the single character.
At small sizesSix strokes, wide and stable. Reliable small and on curves.
Meaning
Light, radiance; also glory, and bare or used up.
The core word, present in sunlight, glory and time passing.
Other characters for “light”
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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