聖
Symbols Spirit
holy
ㄕㄥˋ shèng
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.
Holy in the religious sense. Chinese-language Christianity uses one character for it, and it is the same one Confucians used for sage.
Before you commit
Choose with careThis is the same character as our sacred page. Chinese does not separate holy from sacred, and 聖 also means sage - the split is an English one.
Cultural noteIn Chinese Christian usage 聖 prefixes almost everything - saints, scripture, Christmas. That association is strong for readers raised in it.
At small sizesThirteen strokes in three stacked layers. Legible small only if given height; the top compresses badly.
Meaning
Holy, sacred; a sage.
The character in 聖經 the Bible, 聖靈 the Holy Spirit and 聖人 the sage.
Other characters for “holy”
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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