虹
Symbols Nature
rainbow
ㄏㄨㄥˊ hóng
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 rainbow, and the arc used as an image of something brilliant and brief.
Before you commit
Choose with care虹 alone looks bare in modern text; people write 彩虹. It is also a common given name element, so it can read as a name.
At small sizesNine strokes, evenly split left and right. Good small, and it suits a curved placement.
Cultural noteThe rainbow carries no promise or covenant meaning in Chinese as it does in the Bible. It reads as beauty that does not last.
Meaning
Rainbow.
The plain word, written with an insect radical from an old belief about its form.
Other characters for “rainbow”
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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