星
Symbols Nature
star
ㄒㄧㄥ xīng
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.
Star: in modern Chinese this is the word for a celebrity at least as often as for a point of light.
Before you commit
Choose with care明星 means film star, and 星 alone leans that way in modern Chinese. The romantic night-sky reading is not automatic.
JapaneseRead hoshi and just as common; 曜 in particular is everyday in Japan in the names of the weekdays.
At small sizesNine strokes in two stacked halves. It stays legible small if the horizontal bars keep their spacing.
Meaning
Star; also a celebrity.
Nine strokes, sun over life, and perfectly balanced as a shape.
Other characters for “star”
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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