真
Symbols Virtues
innocence
ㄓㄣ zhēn
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.
Not yet marked by the world, in the sense of open-heartedness rather than legal blamelessness.
Before you commit
Choose with careInnocence in the sense of not guilty is a completely different word, 無辜. None of these characters will say that; they all point at a quality of heart.
At small sizes真 is ten strokes with several horizontals close together, so the middle fills in when very small. Keep it above two centimetres.
Cultural note天真 is affectionate about a child and often faintly critical about an adult, meaning someone who has not grasped how the world works. 純真 avoids that edge.
Meaning
True, genuine, unfeigned.
Innocence as being unfaked, the sense inside 天真 and 純真.
Other characters for “innocence”
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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