仁
Symbols Virtues
benevolence
ㄖㄣˊ rén
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.
Humane feeling towards other people, treated by Confucius as the virtue all others grow from.
Before you commit
Choose with care仁 is a philosophical term, not a warm everyday word. It reads as a classical citation, which is dignified but slightly formal; 慈 or 善 sound more human.
At small sizesFour strokes, the simplest character in this batch. It is extremely legible small, on fingers and on curved skin.
Cultural noteThe character is a person beside the number two, a structure Chinese readers routinely point to as meaning how one person should be towards another. It is also common in shop and clinic names.
Meaning
Benevolence, humaneness; the proper feeling of one person for another.
The single most important virtue in Confucian thought, and unmistakable.
Other characters for “benevolence”
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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