equanimity

泰

ㄊㄞˋ tài

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.

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Meeting good and bad news with the same face, from settledness rather than indifference.

Before you commit

Choose with care泰 alone is now most often read as short for Thailand, and as a common element in shop and bank names. Its calm sense really lives in 泰然, so consider the pair.

Pairs well with泰然 means perfectly composed; 處之泰然 means to meet whatever comes with equanimity and is the full idiom behind it.

At small sizes泰 is ten strokes with fine strokes at the base that close up quickly. Not a good small or curved-placement choice.

Meaning

At ease, untroubled, secure; calm on a large scale.

The character in 泰然, meaning composed whatever happens.

Other characters for “equanimity”

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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