岸
Symbols Nature
shore
ㄢˋ àn
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 line where water meets land, and the far bank people speak of reaching.
Before you commit
Choose with care岸 alone can mean a river bank, so it does not imply the sea. It also appears in a phrase for a proud, aloof bearing.
At small sizesEight strokes with a strong horizontal top. Clean and reliable when small.
Cultural noteIn Buddhist usage the far shore is enlightenment, and reaching the other shore is the standard metaphor for crossing over. Many readers hear that first.
Meaning
Bank, shore, coast; also lofty or imposing in manner.
The everyday word for the water's edge, on a river or a sea.
Other characters for “shore”
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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