誘
Symbols Beauty
allure
惑
ㄧㄡˋ ㄏㄨㄛˋ yòu huò
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.
Attraction that works on you slightly against your will. The Chinese words for it lean toward temptation.
Before you commit
Choose with care誘惑 is temptation, not the neutral shimmer English allure can have. Chinese readers hear a warning in it more often than a compliment.
Pairs well withIf you want attraction without the moral edge, 魅力 is the honest substitute and reads far warmer.
At small sizesTwenty-six strokes over two dense characters, with a heart radical under the second. This one needs real size.
Meaning
Temptation, enticement; the pull of something you should resist.
The standard word, and the one used for moral temptation as well.
Other characters for “allure”
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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