暮
Symbols Nature
dusk
ㄇㄨˋ mù
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 hour after sunset when the light is going but not gone.
Before you commit
Choose with care暮 marks decline as much as time. It is the character in the phrase for old age, so it reads as something ending.
At small sizesFifteen strokes stacked in three layers. Keep it large enough that the sun at the base stays open.
Cultural noteDusk is the traditional hour for meetings and for coming home, and the pairing of morning and dusk stands for the whole span of a day or a life.
Meaning
Dusk, nightfall; also late in a season or a life.
Time of day and lateness of life in one character.
Other characters for “dusk”
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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