美
Symbols Beauty
beauty
ㄇㄟˇ měi
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.
What is pleasing to look at, and by extension what is fine or good. Chinese runs those two senses together.
Before you commit
Choose with care美 also stands for America - 美國 is the United States and 美金 is US dollars. In isolation many readers register the country before the quality.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read bi or utsukushii, meaning beautiful. It is very common in Japanese given names.
At small sizesNine strokes, mostly horizontals over two legs. It scales down well, though the stacked lines merge if the ink spreads.
Meaning
Beautiful; fine, good, excellent.
The main character for beauty, used of faces, food, scenery and conduct alike.
Other characters for “beauty”
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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