flawless

無

瑕

ㄨˊ ㄒㄧㄚˊ wú xiá

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

Layout

Without a single defect. In Chinese you say it by naming the flaw and negating it, which is why one character will not do.

Before you commit

Choose with care瑕 on its own means the flaw. Worn alone it says blemish, the exact opposite of what you want - the 無 in front is doing all the work.

At small sizesTwenty-five strokes over two characters, with the jade radical on the left of the second. That fine detail needs room.

Cultural note白璧無瑕, flawless white jade, is the standing image for an unblemished person. The measure of flawlessness here is jade, not glass or skin.

Meaning

Flawless, spotless, without blemish.

Literally without flaw, and the standard way to say it of jade or of character.

Other characters for “flawless”

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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