想
Symbols Mind
imagination
像
ㄒㄧㄤˇ ㄒㄧㄤˋ xiǎng xiàng
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.
Picturing what is not in front of you. The Chinese word takes two characters; the single 想 means to think or to want.
Before you commit
Choose with care幻 sounds appealing in translation but leans toward illusion and unreality. It is not a compliment to anyone's mind.
JapaneseJapanese writes 想像 identically and reads it souzou. It carries across without change.
At small sizes想像 is thirteen strokes beside fourteen and both are busy. Two dense characters together go grey small, so size generously.
Meaning
Imagination; to picture something that is not present.
The exact word, written this way in Taiwan.
Other characters for “imagination”
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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