嬰
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baby
ㄧㄥ yīng
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 newborn or an infant still being carried. The single character is precise and rather clinical.
Before you commit
Choose with care嬰 names a stage, not a bond. It reads as a technical term for a newborn, so it can feel cold where 寶寶 feels like a person.
Pairs well with嬰兒 for the plain noun, or 寶寶 if what you want on the skin is the warmth rather than the definition.
At small sizesSeventeen strokes, and the top half is two identical crowded elements side by side. It clogs badly when small.
Meaning
Infant, newborn; a child in its first year or two.
The exact word, used in hospitals and in writing more than in speech.
Other characters for “baby”
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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