華
Symbols Beauty
splendor
ㄏㄨㄚˊ huá
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.
Grand, shining magnificence. The main character also means China, which changes how a lone glyph reads.
Before you commit
Choose with care華 also means China and Chinese people - 中華, 華人, 華語. Worn alone it can read as an ethnic label rather than as splendour.
JapaneseJapanese uses 華 for flower and for showiness (華やか) and puts it in given names, so the glyph does not read as specifically Chinese.
At small sizesA dozen strokes stacked in horizontal bands under a grass radical. Those bands close up when it is inked small.
Meaning
Splendour, magnificence, brilliance; also flourishing and ornate.
The character behind 豪華 luxurious and 華麗 gorgeous.
Other characters for “splendor”
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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