紙
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paper
ㄓˇ zhǐ
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.
Paper - a Chinese invention, and one of the four traditional treasures of the scholar's desk.
Before you commit
Choose with care紙 is a completely ordinary word with no poetry in it. It is the paper of receipts and toilet roll as much as of calligraphy.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read shi or kami, meaning paper. Note that kami is also the sound of the word for a god, though the characters differ.
At small sizesTen strokes, silk radical beside a light right half. Balanced and dependable when small.
Meaning
Paper; a sheet of paper.
The plain everyday word, unambiguous and instantly read.
Other characters for “paper”
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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