業
Symbols Spirit
karma of deeds
ㄧㄝˋ yè
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 idea that what you do comes back to you. Chinese names the deed, the law behind it and the payback with three different characters.
Before you commit
Choose with care業 reads as occupation or industry to a modern eye - 職業, 工業, 作業 homework. The karmic sense only surfaces in a religious setting, and skin supplies no setting.
JapaneseJapanese keeps both senses of 業 as well, so the character gives no clue which language you meant.
At small sizesThirteen strokes in tight horizontal bands. It clogs quickly at small size or with a heavy needle.
Meaning
Karmic action - what a person does and carries forward. Also work, industry.
The technical Buddhist term for deeds, though most readers meet it as business.
Other characters for “karma of deeds”
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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