金
Symbols Nature
metal
ㄐㄧㄣ jīn
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.
Metal in general, and the fourth of the five phases, linked to autumn and to cutting.
Before you commit
Choose with care金 first reads as gold or money. If you specifically mean metal as a substance, only 金屬 removes the doubt.
At small sizesEight strokes, well balanced. Reliable in small sizes and on curves.
Cultural noteIn the five phases, metal is autumn, west, and the quality of cutting and refining. That framing is what most readers bring to it.
Meaning
Metal in general; also gold and money.
The classical word for the metal phase, and the radical in metal names.
Other characters for “metal”
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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