隱
Symbols Spirit
hidden
ㄧㄣˇ yǐn
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.
Out of sight, on purpose. The main Chinese character carries an honourable sense of withdrawing from public life, not of sneaking.
Before you commit
Choose with care隱 is not furtive. 隱居 is retiring to live quietly and 隱士 is a recluse, a respected figure in Chinese tradition. If you mean sneaking, this is the wrong character.
JapaneseJapanese uses the abbreviated 隠, so the full 隱 reads as Chinese or as deliberately traditional.
At small sizesSeventeen strokes, mound radical on the left and a heart at the base. Dense - give it room, and expect the middle to fill first.
Meaning
To hide, to conceal; hidden, latent; living in retirement.
The character of 隱士, the recluse - hiddenness as a chosen dignity.
Other characters for “hidden”
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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