恩
Symbols Virtues
gratitude to parents
ㄣ 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.
Recognising what your parents gave you, and treating it as something to be repaid.
Before you commit
Choose with care恩 names the kindness received, not your gratitude for it. Alone it reads as a debt owed rather than as thankfulness, and it is also a common given-name character.
Pairs well with親恩 means specifically the kindness of parents; 恩情 is the bond of gratitude between people. Either narrows 恩 to what you mean.
At small sizesTen strokes over a heart radical. The lower heart strokes close up when small, so keep it above two centimetres.
Meaning
Kindness received; a benefit that creates a lasting debt.
The character for what parents gave, which is where Chinese puts the emphasis.
Other characters for “gratitude to parents”
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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