木
Symbols Nature
wood
ㄇㄨˋ mù
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.
Wood as material and as one of the five phases, associated with growth and spring.
Before you commit
Choose with care木 also means wooden in the sense of stiff or dull-witted, as in numb hands or a blank expression. That reading is common.
JapaneseIdentical in Japanese, read ki or moku. Extremely common there, so the glyph carries no Chinese signal alone.
At small sizesFour strokes. Simple to the point of looking like a stencil mark rather than a tattoo.
Meaning
Wood, timber; also tree, and one of the five phases.
A drawing of a tree, and the radical inside most tree and timber characters.
Other characters for “wood”
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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