夕
Symbols Nature
sunset
ㄒㄧˋ xì · mainland reads xī
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 going down, and the warm, slightly melancholy end of a day.
Before you commit
Choose with care夕 means evening, not the sunset itself. It also appears in the word for danger at any moment, so it is not purely gentle.
JapaneseRead yuu in Japanese with the same meaning and used constantly there, so it carries no Chinese-specific signal.
At small sizesThree strokes. Extremely clean small, but so simple it can read as a stray mark rather than a character.
Meaning
Evening, sundown; the hours after the sun drops.
Three strokes, one of the oldest and simplest evening characters.
Other characters for “sunset”
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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