謙
Symbols Virtues
modesty
ㄑㄧㄢ qiān
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.
Not claiming more than you are owed, treated in Chinese life as a working social skill.
Before you commit
Choose with care謙 is about social bearing, not about dress or sexual modesty. If you mean modesty in the clothing sense, no character here says that and 端莊, meaning dignified, is closer.
At small sizesSeventeen strokes with the speech radical. Dense and demanding; give it real size or choose a simpler candidate.
Cultural note謙虛, humility with openness, is one of the most commonly praised qualities in Chinese social life, and false modesty is a recognised and criticised performance of it.
Meaning
Humble, modest; not putting yourself forward.
The single character for modesty, still in daily use.
Other characters for “modesty”
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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