心
Symbols Spirit
mind
ㄒㄧㄣ xīn
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.
Chinese does not split the mind from the heart. One character does both jobs, and that is worth knowing before choosing it.
Before you commit
Choose with careIf you want mind as distinct from heart, no single character gives you that. 心 will be read as heart first by most people who see it.
Pairs well with心智 is mind in the cognitive sense and 內心 is the inner self. Either removes the ambiguity 心 carries alone.
At small sizesFour strokes. The smallest safe choice in this whole category and untroubled by any curve.
Meaning
Heart and mind together; where thought and feeling both sit.
Chinese never divided the two, so this character does the work of both.
Other characters for “mind”
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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