池
Symbols Nature
pond
ㄔˊ chí
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.
A small body of still water, usually made or kept rather than wild.
Before you commit
Choose with care池 is also the character in swimming pool and in battery, so a modern reader may land somewhere much less scenic.
Pairs well with蓮池 is a lotus pond and carries the Buddhist associations most people are reaching for with this idea.
At small sizesSix strokes and open. Works small, but reads plain rather than striking.
Meaning
Pond, pool; also a tank or basin.
The ordinary character, used of garden ponds and swimming pools alike.
Other characters for “pond”
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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