岩
Symbols Nature
rock
ㄧㄢˊ yán
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.
Rock in the landscape sense, and the steadiness people borrow the word for.
Before you commit
Choose with care岩 describes terrain. If you mean a person who is your rock, 磐石 says that and 岩 does not.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read iwa, with the same meaning. It will read as Japanese to many viewers.
At small sizesEight strokes in a stacked mountain-over-stone shape. Keep it upright rather than on a tight curve.
Meaning
Rock, crag; rock as part of the terrain.
The usual character in mountain and geology words.
Other characters for “rock”
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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