石
Symbols Nature
stone
ㄕˊ shí
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.
Stone as material and as an image of being unmoved and unornamented.
Before you commit
Choose with care石 is neutral material. Chinese also uses stone for stubborn and slow-witted, so it does not read as strong of character on its own.
Pairs well with磐石 is the natural two-character way to say immovable rock, and is what most people actually mean by a stone tattoo.
At small sizesFive strokes, wide and open. Holds up at any size and on any placement.
Meaning
Stone, rock; the material itself.
The base character, found inside most stone and mineral words.
Other characters for “stone”
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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