風
Symbols Nature
wind
ㄈㄥ fēng
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.
Wind: the same character covers manner, style and custom as well as weather, so it is much less innocent than the English word.
Before you commit
Choose with care風 also means rumour, custom and sexual licence depending on the compound, as in 風流. It is a far broader character than wind.
Pairs well with風骨 — wind and bone, meaning strength of character and an unbending personal style.
At small sizesNine strokes around an open frame in the traditional form; the inner element blocks up before the frame does.
Meaning
Wind; also style, manner, prevailing custom.
The traditional form with the insect inside; the double meaning is everyday, not poetic licence.
Other characters for “wind”
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.
Related concepts