命
Symbols Life
fate
ㄇㄧㄥˋ mìng
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.
What was allotted to you before you chose. Chinese separates the fixed allotment, the way it unfolds, and the connections that bring people together.
Before you commit
Choose with care命 first means life itself - 救命 is save my life. Fate is its second sense, and a reader may take it as life before destiny.
Pairs well with緣分 is worth knowing if you mean fate between people rather than fate over a life. It is one of the warmest words in the language.
At small sizesEight strokes with a wide roof over a tight base. Clean small, though the roof can dominate if the design is squeezed.
Meaning
Fate, destiny, the life allotted to you; also a command.
Fate as something issued from above and not negotiable.
Other characters for “fate”
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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