意
Symbols Life
meaning
義
ㄧˋ ㄧˋ yì yì
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.
What something amounts to, or why a life matters. The single characters split into sense and significance, and neither covers both.
Before you commit
Choose with care義 does mean meaning, as in the sense of a word, but on skin it will be read as righteousness — a very different statement about yourself.
Pairs well with生命的意義, the meaning of life, is the full phrase. 意義 alone is enough for a reader to complete it in their head.
At small sizesTwenty-six strokes over two characters, and 義 is dense across the top. Set it large or stack the pair vertically.
Meaning
Meaning, significance; the point of something.
The word used in the phrase the meaning of life, and unmistakable.
Other characters for “meaning”
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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