露
Symbols Nature
dew
ㄌㄨˋ lù
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.
Dew: brief, fresh and gone by mid-morning, and in Chinese the standard figure for something that does not last.
Before you commit
Choose with care露 alone most often means to expose or leak — 露面 to show your face, 洩露 to leak a secret. The dew reading needs a second character to be certain.
At small sizesTwenty-one strokes under a rain radical. A poor choice for anything under about 4 cm.
Cultural note人生如朝露 — life is like morning dew — is the classical line behind the image. It is about brevity, not freshness.
Meaning
Dew; also to reveal or expose.
Both meanings are in daily use, and the exposure sense is the commoner one.
Other characters for “dew”
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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