形
Symbols Beauty
form
ㄒㄧㄥˊ xíng
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.
The shape a thing takes, and in Buddhist use the whole world of appearances.
Before you commit
Choose with care形 is a neutral, technical word with no warmth or philosophy in it. It is the form of a triangle as readily as the form of a person.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read kei or katachi. It is the 形 of kata in martial arts, a set form of movement, so it may read as that first.
At small sizesSeven strokes, a light frame with three parallel sweeps on the right. Very safe small, and the sweeps suit a curve.
Meaning
Form, shape, the outward figure of something.
The plain word for the form of an object or a body.
Other characters for “form”
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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