銀
Symbols Nature
silver
ㄧㄣˊ yín
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.
Silver the metal, and by extension the pale grey-white of its colour.
Before you commit
Choose with care銀 leans commercial. It is the first character of the word for bank, so many readers think money before they think metal.
Pairs well with銀河 is the Milky Way, literally the silver river, and is a far more evocative use of the same character.
At small sizesFourteen strokes split into two halves. The metal radical on the left crowds badly when small.
Meaning
Silver; also used for banking and for silver-white things.
The plain word, and the character in the words for bank and for the Milky Way.
Other characters for “silver”
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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