月
Symbols Nature
moon
ㄩㄝˋ yuè
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 moon: reunion, family and homesickness in Chinese — a warm domestic image far more than a mysterious one.
Before you commit
Choose with care月 also means month in every date, so alone it can read as a calendar word rather than a poetic one.
At small sizesFour strokes in a narrow frame. It scales well but reads tall and thin; give it a vertical placement.
Cultural noteThe Mid-Autumn full moon means family reunion. A moon here carries missing home, not night or mystery.
Meaning
Moon; also month.
Four strokes, and the character every moon word is built from.
Other characters for “moon”
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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