天
Symbols Spirit
grace of heaven
恩
ㄊㄧㄢ ㄣ tiān ēn
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.
Undeserved kindness from above. The Chinese phrase is old, and it carries a sense of a debt you now owe.
Before you commit
Choose with care恩 is not the free grace of Christian theology. A Chinese reader hears an obligation in it - kindness that ought to be returned.
Cultural note報恩, repaying kindness, is a whole genre of story. Taking 恩 and never returning it is a real fault in this moral vocabulary.
At small sizes天 is four strokes, 恩 is ten with 心 beneath. Both are open, and the pair handles small placement well.
Meaning
The grace of heaven; kindness received from above.
The standard phrase, historically used of an emperor's favour as well.
Other characters for “grace of heaven”
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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