仙
Symbols Spirit
immortal
ㄒㄧㄢ xiān
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.
A person who has passed beyond death and lives free - the Daoist transcendent, which is not an angel and not a god.
Before you commit
Choose with care仙 has softened in modern use. 神仙 gets said of anyone with an easy life and 仙女 of any pretty girl, so it reads as light and pleasant rather than austere.
JapaneseJapanese reads 仙 as sen with the same Daoist sense, so it does not read as specifically Chinese.
At small sizesFive strokes, person and mountain side by side. One of the safest characters there is at small size or on a curve.
Meaning
An immortal; a transcendent who has passed beyond ordinary life.
The core character - person beside mountain, which is where they were said to live.
Other characters for “immortal”
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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