春
Symbols Nature
spring
ㄔㄨㄣ chūn
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 first season: new growth, warmth returning, and youth in the human sense too.
Before you commit
Choose with care春 has an erotic register in some compounds: 春宮 for erotic pictures, 懷春 for adolescent longing. Alone it reads as the season, but the range exists.
At small sizesNine strokes, sun radical under a broad top. Balanced and reliable small.
Cultural note春 is pasted on doors at Lunar New Year, often deliberately upside down, because 春到 inverted puns on spring arriving. It is a genuinely auspicious character.
Meaning
Spring; new life, youth, vitality.
One character carrying the season and the sense of being young at once.
Other characters for “spring”
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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