魅
Symbols Beauty
charm
力
ㄇㄟˋ ㄌㄧˋ mèi lì
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 pull a person has that is not simply looks. Chinese names it with a word whose first character means a spirit.
Before you commit
Choose with care魅 by itself is a demon or spectre - the 魅 of 魑魅魍魎, the old catalogue of goblins. Only 力 beside it turns the word into charm.
JapaneseJapanese uses 魅力 (miryoku) with exactly the same meaning, so the pair reads naturally in either language.
At small sizesSeventeen strokes, unevenly split - 魅 is dense and 力 is two strokes. The imbalance grows more obvious the smaller you go.
Meaning
Charm, magnetism, appeal; charisma.
The everyday word for the quality that draws people to a person or a place.
Other characters for “charm”
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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