靄
Symbols Nature
mist
ㄞˇ ǎi
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.
Mist: Chinese separates the thin luminous haze over a landscape from thick fog, and the thin one is the poetic word.
Before you commit
Choose with care靄 and 嵐 are literary. Most Chinese speakers say 霧 for anything you cannot see through and would read 靄 as a word out of a poem.
Japanese嵐 in Japanese means storm, read arashi, and is a very well-known band name. The two languages genuinely disagree here.
At small sizes靄 runs past twenty strokes and is unsuitable for small work; 嵐 at twelve strokes is the one that survives.
Meaning
Haze; a soft mist lying over hills or water.
The thin, glowing mist of landscape painting rather than dense fog.
Other characters for “mist”
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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