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goddess

ㄋㄩˇ ㄕㄣˊ nǚ 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.

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A female god. Chinese builds the word from god plus female, and modern slang has largely taken it over.

Before you commit

Choose with careIn current internet Chinese 女神 mostly means the girl everyone fancies and nobody can have. Younger readers will see that first, and it is not a religious meaning.

At small sizesThree strokes then around ten. The pair is unbalanced by nature - keep 女 from shrinking into the side of 神.

Cultural noteThe goddesses people actually pray to in Taiwan are 媽祖 and 觀音, and both are named rather than called 女神. Naming the one you mean reads far better than the category.

Meaning

A goddess.

The plain, correct word - female plus god, with nothing else in it.

Other characters for “goddess”

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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