魂
Symbols Spirit
soul
ㄏㄨㄣˊ hún
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 part of a person that is not the body. Chinese splits it in two: a soul that rises at death and one that stays with the flesh.
Before you commit
Choose with care魂 belongs to the vocabulary of ghosts as much as to the inner life. 失魂 means dazed and 亡魂 is a departed spirit.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read tamashii. Well understood there, and if anything more everyday than in Chinese.
At small sizesFourteen strokes with the ghost radical 鬼 on the right. Detailed - the lower right fills in when reduced.
Meaning
The soul; the spirit that survives the body.
The everyday word for soul, and the one used in stories of the dead.
Other characters for “soul”
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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