精
Symbols Mind
mastery
通
ㄐㄧㄥ ㄊㄨㄥ jīng tōng
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.
Knowing something so thoroughly it takes no thought. Chinese states this with a two-character verb rather than an abstract noun.
Before you commit
Choose with care精 is unreliable on its own. It also means essence and is the character in the word for semen, so it can be read crudely.
At small sizes精通 is fourteen strokes beside eleven. Both are moderately dense; keep the rice radical of 精 open.
Cultural note熟能生巧 is the standard proverb for mastery through repetition, the Chinese counterpart of practice makes perfect.
Meaning
To have complete command of a subject or a skill.
The plain, unmistakable word for having mastered something.
Other characters for “mastery”
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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