冬
Symbols Nature
winter
ㄉㄨㄥ dōng
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 last season; plain and cold, with the endurance meaning carried by other words.
Before you commit
Choose with care冬 is simply the calendar season, with no toughness built in. If you want winter as hardship survived, 寒 or the phrase 歲寒 does that work.
At small sizesFive strokes with two dots below. Exceptionally clean small and on curved placements.
Cultural note歲寒然後知松柏之後凋: only when the year turns cold do you see which trees keep their leaves. That is where winter's meaning sits in Chinese.
Meaning
Winter.
Short, clean and neutral; five strokes for a whole season.
Other characters for “winter”
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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