愛
Symbols Emotions
eternal love
ㄞˋ ài
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.
Love that lasts — a promise Chinese normally makes in a four-character phrase rather than one word.
Before you commit
Choose with care永愛 is not a Chinese word. Do not have it written. Chinese says this in set phrases — 天長地久, 永結同心, 白頭偕老 — or not at all.
At small sizes永 is 5 strokes and scales down beautifully; 愛 at 13 is denser. A 永 alone is the most robust option here.
Cultural note恆 is the character in 永恆, eternity, and reads as constancy rather than feeling. 恆心 means perseverance, so 恆 suggests love kept up rather than love felt.
Meaning
Love.
The base; everything else here modifies it.
Other characters for “eternal love”
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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