明
Symbols Virtues
clarity
ㄇㄧㄥˊ míng
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.
Seeing plainly, without confusion.
Before you commit
Choose with care明 covers bright, clear, obvious and to understand, and it is also the Ming dynasty. Rich, but not narrowly clarity.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read mei or aka, and very common in names. Expect it to be read as a name element.
At small sizesEight strokes in two even halves. Excellent small and on curved placements.
Meaning
Bright; clear; to understand.
Sun and moon together, and also the verb for grasping something.
Other characters for “clarity”
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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