蓮
Symbols Nature
lotus
ㄌㄧㄢˊ lián
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.
The lotus: purity kept intact in dirty water, and the flower most closely tied to Buddhism in China.
Before you commit
Choose with careThe lotus stands for integrity kept clean in a corrupt setting — 出淤泥而不染, rising from the mud unstained. It is not a general symbol of peace.
JapaneseRead hasu or ren, and the Buddhist associations carry across, so the character will not mark the piece as Chinese.
Pairs well with蓮心 — the lotus heart, which is literally bitter; used of a hidden bitterness under a clean surface.
Meaning
Lotus.
The character used for the flower as a symbol and in Buddhist contexts.
Other characters for “lotus”
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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