內
Symbols Spirit
inner self
心
ㄋㄟˋ ㄒㄧㄣ nèi xīn
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.
The part of you nobody else sees. Chinese says it as the inside of the heart, and the phrase is completely ordinary.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means inner self. 內 alone just means inside, and on a body it reads as a direction rather than a concept.
Pairs well with內心 is the natural pairing. 本心 shifts it toward the original, uncalculating heart, which is what many people mean by inner self.
At small sizesFour strokes plus four, both open. Among the most small-friendly pairs in this whole category.
Meaning
The inner heart; one's private thoughts and feelings.
The everyday word - what you actually feel as against what you show.
Other characters for “inner self”
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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