月
Symbols Nature
moonlight
光
ㄩㄝˋ ㄍㄨㄤ yuè guāng
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 light of the moon; a single character gives you the moon, not its light.
Before you commit
Choose with care月 alone is the moon, and also the word for month, so a calendar reading is always available. Only 月光 says moonlight.
At small sizes月 is four strokes and very clean. The two-character 月光 needs more room but reads correctly.
Cultural noteThe moon carries reunion and homesickness in Chinese, not romance in the Western sense. Mid-Autumn is about family, not lovers.
Meaning
Moonlight.
The only spelling that unambiguously means the light rather than the object.
Other characters for “moonlight”
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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