海
Symbols Nature
ocean
ㄏㄞˇ hǎi
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 sea: vastness and capacity, and in Chinese the standard image for taking everything in without complaint.
Before you commit
Choose with care海納百川 — the sea takes in a hundred rivers — is what most readers attach to this character: tolerance and capacity, not freedom or adventure.
JapaneseRead umi or kai in Japanese and equally common there, so the character will not mark the piece as Chinese.
At small sizesThe three-dot water radical is the weak point. Keep the dots distinct or they run into the right half.
Meaning
Sea; by extension a vast quantity of anything.
Ten strokes with the water radical; the plainest and best of the set.
Other characters for “ocean”
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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