虔
Symbols Virtues
devotion
ㄑㄧㄢˊ qián
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.
Giving yourself wholly to a person, a faith or a cause, with reverence rather than mere effort.
Before you commit
Choose with care虔 is religious in tone. If you mean devotion to a partner, a reader will find 篤 or 忠 far more natural; 虔 alone can read as an unfinished half of 虔誠.
Pairs well with虔誠 is the full everyday word for devout. Two characters here read more clearly than one.
At small sizesTen strokes with a tight upper section. It thickens and blurs when inked small; give it room.
Meaning
Devout, reverent; the attitude of someone before what they hold sacred.
The closest single character to religious devotion; carries awe, not just loyalty.
Other characters for “devotion”
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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