浪
Symbols Nature
wave
ㄌㄤˋ làng
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 wave, and the up-and-down of a life that does not stay level.
Before you commit
Choose with care浪 carries a loose, dissolute streak. It is the character in the words for waste, for a vagrant, and for a flirt.
Pairs well with風浪 means wind and waves, and stands for the hardships a person comes through. That is usually the intended meaning.
At small sizesTen strokes, evenly weighted. Fine on a curve.
Meaning
Wave, breaker; also unrestrained or wasteful.
Big surface waves, and the character in the word for waste.
Other characters for “wave”
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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