雅
Symbols Virtues
grace
ㄧㄚˇ yǎ
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.
Two different ideas in English, effortless elegance and unearned favour. Chinese keeps them apart.
Before you commit
Choose with careDecide which grace you mean. 雅 is elegance; 恩 is favour shown to you. Neither covers the other, and choosing wrong changes the piece completely.
Pairs well with優雅 for elegance. 恩典 is the standard Christian term for divine grace.
At small sizes雅 is twelve strokes and splits cleanly left to right. It reads well small.
Meaning
Elegant; refined; in good taste.
Grace as poise and restraint, the aesthetic sense.
Other characters for “grace”
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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