崖
Symbols Nature
cliff
ㄧㄞˊ yái · mainland reads yá
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.
A sheer rock face, and the edge people mean when they talk about standing at the brink.
Before you commit
Choose with care崖 is almost always read as danger. The famous phrase about reining in the horse at the cliff edge means stopping before disaster.
Pairs well with懸崖 is how anyone would actually write cliff. The single character alone looks incomplete in modern text.
At small sizesEleven strokes under a broad overhang. The horizontal top edge stays crisp when small.
Meaning
Cliff, precipice; a sheer drop.
The core character for a cliff edge.
Other characters for “cliff”
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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