瓣
Symbols Nature
petal
ㄅㄢˋ bàn
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.
One of the coloured leaves of a flower head; the single character is broader than English petal.
Before you commit
Choose with careA lone 瓣 reads as segment or clove as readily as petal. A garlic clove is 一瓣蒜. Write 花瓣 unless you want that broader sense.
Pairs well with花瓣 petal, 落英 fallen blossoms. Both are common and both read instantly.
At small sizesNineteen strokes packed into three vertical columns. This is one of the worst characters for small or curved placement.
Meaning
A petal; also a segment of fruit, a clove of garlic, or a valve.
The correct character, but it names any wedge-shaped part, not only a petal.
Other characters for “petal”
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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