雪
Symbols Nature
snow
ㄒㄩㄝˇ xuě
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.
Snow: cleanliness and cold clarity, and as a verb the ordinary Chinese word for wiping out a disgrace.
Before you commit
Choose with care雪恥 means to wipe out a humiliation. As a verb this character is about revenge and vindication, which surprises most English speakers.
Pairs well with冰雪聰明 — ice-and-snow clever, said of someone with a sharp, clear mind.
At small sizesThe rain radical on top carries four small dots. Below about 3 cm they blur into a single line.
Meaning
Snow; also to clear or avenge a wrong.
Eleven strokes, rain above a hand, and both meanings are in daily use.
Other characters for “snow”
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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