旭
Symbols Nature
sunrise
ㄒㄩˋ xù
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 sun coming up, and the standard image for a beginning full of force.
Before you commit
Choose with care旭 reads as bright and vigorous, not as a fresh start. If you mean a new beginning, that idea lives in 始 or 新, not here.
JapaneseWidely used in Japanese as asahi, including as a brand name. Many viewers will read it as Japanese first.
At small sizesSix strokes and unusually open. One of the better small choices in this group.
Meaning
The rising sun; early morning sunlight.
Specifically the sun as it comes up, common in given names.
Other characters for “sunrise”
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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