親
Symbols Emotions
intimacy
ㄑㄧㄣ qīn
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.
Real closeness between two people — knowing and being known, whether or not romance is involved.
Before you commit
Choose with care親 alone reads as parent or blood relative before it reads as intimate — 父親 is father, 親人 is family. As a tattoo it will look like a family piece.
JapaneseShared kanji, read oya, meaning parent. In Japan the family reading dominates even more than in Chinese.
Pairs well with親密 for closeness between partners; 相親相愛 for a couple or family who are devoted to one another.
Meaning
Close, dear, intimate; also parent and blood relative.
The character for people who are not at arm's length from you.
Other characters for “intimacy”
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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