夏
Symbols Nature
summer
ㄒㄧㄚˋ xià
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 hot season, and also one of the oldest names China used for itself.
Before you commit
Choose with care夏 also names the Xia dynasty and forms 華夏, an old literary name for China and its people. It is a surname too, so it does more work than just the season.
JapaneseShared glyph, read natsu, with the same seasonal meaning. Safe in either language.
At small sizesTen strokes, top-heavy with a wide crown. Fine small if the lower legs are given room.
Meaning
Summer; also the Xia dynasty, and old China itself.
The season by name, with a heavy layer of historical meaning attached.
Other characters for “summer”
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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