雅
Symbols Beauty
elegance
ㄧㄚˇ yǎ
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.
Restrained good taste - the opposite of loud. Chinese has a single character that covers exactly this.
Before you commit
Choose with care雅 also means the standard or correct - 雅言 was the proper speech of the court. It suggests cultivation and correctness, not just prettiness.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read ga or miyabi, with the same courtly, refined sense. Very common in Japanese given names.
At small sizesTwelve strokes split left and right, the right side a stack of short horizontals. It reads well small as long as those horizontals stay open.
Meaning
Elegant, refined, in good taste; also proper or standard.
Said of a person, a room or a piece of writing that is quietly right.
Other characters for “elegance”
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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