精
Symbols Beauty
exquisite
緻
ㄐㄧㄥ ㄓˋ jīng zhì
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.
Workmanship so close and careful that the eye keeps finding more in it. Chinese names this with a word about refinement.
Before you commit
Choose with care精 alone is unstable. It means essence and refined, but also a sprite, and in medical use semen. The pair 精緻 removes all of that at once.
JapaneseJapanese writes 精緻 too, with the same meaning, though 精巧 is the commoner word there for finely made things.
At small sizesTwenty-nine strokes across two crowded characters - among the densest options here. Give it size or it becomes a smudge.
Meaning
Exquisite, finely wrought, delicately detailed.
Said of jewellery, pastry, embroidery and anything made with close care.
Other characters for “exquisite”
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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