信
Symbols Virtues
conviction
念
ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄋㄧㄢˋ xìn niàn
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.
A belief you have decided to live by, not merely one you hold.
Before you commit
Choose with care信 alone drifts towards religious faith or towards a letter in the post. If you mean a principle you would not abandon, 信念 is the phrase that says it without ambiguity.
Pairs well with堅定的信念 means firm conviction; if you want it shorter, 堅信 means to believe firmly and works as two characters.
At small sizesNine strokes plus eight, both moderately open. Fine at medium size, crowded below two centimetres.
Meaning
A conviction; a belief held firmly enough to act on.
The exact Chinese equivalent, and no single character covers it.
Other characters for “conviction”
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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