定
Symbols Spirit
meditation
ㄉㄧㄥˋ dìng
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.
Sitting practice. Chinese has several words for it depending on whether you mean the school, the posture or the state of mind.
Before you commit
Choose with care定 also just means fixed or decided, as in 決定. With no context most readers will take the ordinary sense rather than the meditative one.
Pairs well with禪定 names the practice unmistakably, and 入定 is entering meditative absorption.
At small sizesEight strokes under a roof radical. Compact, stable and one of the better small-scale choices here.
Meaning
Meditative absorption; also settled, fixed, decided.
The Buddhist term for a mind that has stopped moving, and a calm word in ordinary use.
Other characters for “meditation”
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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