meadow

原

ㄩㄢˊ yuán

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

Layout

Open grassland; Chinese distinguishes wide plains from ordinary patches of grass.

Before you commit

Choose with care原 alone reads as original or as the reason for something far more often than as a plain. It will not say meadow by itself.

Pairs well with草原 is the natural word, but a Chinese reader pictures the Mongolian steppe rather than an English meadow. 草地 is the smaller-scale choice.

At small sizesTen strokes under a broad overhang. The horizontal top holds a small size well.

Meaning

A plain, open level ground; also original or primary.

The single character behind the word for grassland, though it means plain.

Other characters for “meadow”

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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