父
Symbols Relationships
fatherly love
愛
ㄈㄨˋ ㄞˋ fù 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.
A father's love, which the Chinese template pictures as undemonstrative - strictness that is meant as care and usually read that way.
Before you commit
Choose with careThere is no single character meaning fatherly love. 父 by itself just says father, and reads like a census entry rather than a sentiment.
Cultural noteThe inherited template is 嚴父慈母 - strict father, loving mother - and the stock phrase for a father's love is 父愛如山, love that is heavy and says little. 父愛 is pictured as undemonstrative, which is not the same as warm.
At small sizes父 is four strokes and very open; 愛 is thirteen and dense. The pair looks unbalanced unless the spacing is handled carefully.
Meaning
Fatherly love; a father's love for his child.
The single character 父 only names the man, so the word is the honest choice.
Other characters for “fatherly 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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