有
Symbols Spirit
being
ㄧㄡˇ yǒu
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.
Existing at all - the opposite of nothing. Chinese states it with the plain word for having, which is exactly how the philosophy is written.
Before you commit
Choose with care有 is an everyday verb meaning have. Without 無 beside it, almost nobody reads it as being - they read it as possession.
Pairs well with有無 together is instantly philosophical, and 有無相生 - being and nothing produce each other - is a line from the Daodejing.
At small sizesSix strokes, open and simple. It scales down as far as you like and takes a curve well.
Meaning
To have; there is; being, in the philosophical sense.
The standing opposite of 無 in Daoist and Buddhist argument.
Other characters for “being”
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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