雅
Symbols Beauty
graceful
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.
Ease and refinement in how a person moves or carries themselves. The core Chinese character means refined more than fluid.
Before you commit
Choose with care雅 is refinement, not motion. A dancer is 優雅; a room, a poem or a name is 雅. Alone it says cultivated taste rather than graceful movement.
JapaneseJapanese reads 雅 as miyabi, courtly elegance, and uses it constantly in given names. The glyph reads as naturally Japanese as Chinese.
At small sizesTwelve strokes split left and right, with four short horizontals on the right. Those close up before anything else does.
Meaning
Refined, elegant, in cultivated taste.
The standing word for elegance in manner, speech, dress and art.
Other characters for “graceful”
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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