神
Symbols Spirit
divine
ㄕㄣˊ shén
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.
Belonging to a god. Chinese uses the same character for a god and for the spirit or vitality in a living person.
Before you commit
Choose with care神 is the same character shown on our spirit page. It means god just as readily, so expect it to be read as deity rather than as a quality.
JapaneseRead kami in Japanese, where the Shinto deity sense is overwhelmingly the first reading.
At small sizesNine or ten strokes, upright and evenly spaced. It stays clear when reduced.
Meaning
God, deity; divine; also spirit and vital presence.
The default character whenever the divine is meant.
Other characters for “divine”
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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