威
Symbols Beauty
majesty
ㄨㄟ wēi
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 bearing that commands awe. Chinese reaches for words about solemn power rather than about regal beauty.
Before you commit
Choose with care威 is majesty that frightens. The same character sits in 威脅 threaten and 威嚇 intimidate, so it reads as imposing authority rather than grandeur.
Pairs well with威嚴 for dignified authority, 莊嚴 for solemn majesty. Either settles which half of the English word you mean.
At small sizesNine strokes with a long diagonal sweeping to the lower right. That sweep gets flattened on curved placements.
Meaning
Awe-inspiring power, authority, might.
Majesty as the power to overawe - 威嚴 dignity, 威脅 to threaten.
Other characters for “majesty”
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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