神
Symbols Spirit
god
ㄕㄣˊ shén
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 single God of Christianity and Islam. Chinese had no word for that and built one, and different churches settled on different words.
Before you commit
Choose with care神 does not mean God with a capital G. It means a god, any god, and a Chinese reader will not read a single deity into it unless the rest of the design says so.
At small sizesAround ten strokes in a clean left-right split. Reliable at small size and on curved placements.
Cultural noteWhich word a Chinese Christian uses signals their church - Protestants split between 神 and 上帝, Catholics say 天主. The argument over this is centuries old.
Meaning
God; a god, a spirit.
What most Protestant Chinese Bibles use, though it also means any god at all.
Other characters for “god”
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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