火
Symbols Nature
volcano
山
ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄕㄢ huǒ shān
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.
A mountain that erupts; Chinese names it literally and gives it no traditional symbolism.
Before you commit
Choose with careThere is no single character for volcano. 火山 is a compound of fire and mountain and reads exactly that plainly, which some people like and some find blunt.
At small sizesFour and three strokes. This is about as light and clean as a two-character phrase gets.
Cultural noteVolcanoes carry almost no symbolic freight in Chinese tradition; the association is geographic and scientific. Whatever meaning you want, you will be supplying it yourself.
Meaning
Volcano, literally fire mountain.
The only real word for it, and transparent to any reader.
Other characters for “volcano”
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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