碑
Symbols Memory
monument
ㄅㄟ bēi
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.
A stone raised so that something is not forgotten. Chinese names the stone itself.
Before you commit
Choose with care碑 is the object, not the sentiment. Alone it says stone slab, and many readers will think first of calligraphy rubbings taken from famous steles.
At small sizesThirteen strokes, stone radical beside a narrow right half. Reads small if you keep the right side airy.
Cultural noteStone steles are how China preserved its calligraphy. 碑帖, rubbings taken from old steles, are still what students copy from.
Meaning
A stone stele; an upright inscribed stone.
The physical monument - the standing, engraved slab.
Other characters for “monument”
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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