敬
Symbols Emotions
awe
畏
ㄐㄧㄥˋ ㄨㄟˋ jìng wèi
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.
Fear and respect at once, in the face of something far larger than you.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means awe. 畏 alone is fear and 敬 alone is respect — only together do they say what English means.
At small sizes敬畏 runs 13 and 9 strokes. Both are open enough to reduce cleanly, which is unusual for a two-character pair.
Cultural note敬畏 is used of heaven, of nature, and of the law. It implies you keep your distance out of respect, not just fright.
Meaning
Awe; reverent fear.
The exact Chinese term, and the only one that carries both halves.
Other characters for “awe”
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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