內
Symbols Beauty
inner beauty
在
美
ㄋㄟˋ ㄗㄞˋ ㄇㄟˇ nèi zài měi
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.
Worth that is not in the face. Chinese states this as a three-character phrase, and shortening it loses the beauty half.
Before you commit
Choose with careThis one needs all three characters. 內在 alone means internal in a technical sense and 美 alone means beautiful - only the full phrase says inner beauty.
At small sizesNineteen strokes over three characters, so each one is small before the design is. Best given a wide, generous placement.
Cultural noteClassical praise for a person points at 德 virtue and 品 character rather than at inner beauty, which is a modern and largely borrowed framing.
Meaning
Inner beauty; worth of character rather than of appearance.
The ordinary phrase, understood instantly and used much as in English.
Other characters for “inner beauty”
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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