晝
Symbols Nature
daylight
ㄓㄡˋ zhòu
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 lit part of the day, as opposed to the night.
Before you commit
Choose with care晝 means the daytime period, not the quality of light. For sunlight falling on something, 日光 is the accurate choice.
Pairs well with晝夜 means day and night together and stands for something unceasing, such as work that never stops.
At small sizesEleven strokes of stacked horizontals in the traditional form. The lines merge if it is inked small.
Meaning
Daytime, the hours of light.
The proper counterpart to the character for night.
Other characters for “daylight”
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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