種
Symbols Nature
seed
ㄓㄨㄥˇ zhǒng
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.
The grain a plant grows from, and the beginning of something not yet visible.
Before you commit
Choose with careOn its own 種 reads first as kind or species, as in 一種 a type of. For seed specifically, the two-character 種子 removes all doubt.
JapaneseShared glyph, read tane, meaning seed. The reading is different but a Japanese viewer will understand it correctly.
At small sizesFourteen strokes split left and right. Legible at moderate scale, muddy below that.
Meaning
Seed; also a kind or species; read differently it means to plant.
The core character, but it carries the sense of type as strongly as seed.
Other characters for “seed”
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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