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Symbols Beauty
expression
達
ㄅㄧㄠˇ ㄉㄚˊ biǎo dá
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.
Putting an inner thing outward - in words, in art, or on a face. Chinese uses a different word for each of those.
Before you commit
Choose with careEnglish expression covers three separate Chinese words. 表達 is conveying meaning, 表現 is outward showing, 表情 is a face. None of them covers the others.
Pairs well with自我表達 for self-expression, which is the sense most English speakers have in mind when they choose this word.
At small sizesAbout twenty-one strokes over two characters, with a walking radical sweeping under the second. That sweep distorts on tight curves.
Meaning
To express, convey, put into words or form.
The word for expressing an idea or a feeling to someone else.
Other characters for “expression”
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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