天
Symbols Mind
genius
才
ㄊㄧㄢ ㄘㄞˊ tiān cái
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.
Ability far past what training explains. Chinese says heaven-granted talent, in two characters; there is no single-character equivalent.
Before you commit
Choose with care天才 is used sarcastically about as often as sincerely, much like calling someone a genius in English after they do something foolish.
JapaneseJapanese writes 天才 identically and reads it tensai, with the same meaning and the same sarcasm available.
At small sizes天才 is four strokes beside three - among the simplest pairs there are. Very safe small and on curved placements.
Meaning
Genius; a person of extraordinary innate ability.
Literally heaven-granted talent, and the only ordinary word for the idea.
Other characters for “genius”
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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