德
Symbols Virtues
moral strength
ㄉㄜˊ dé
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.
The power to do the right thing when doing it costs you something.
Before you commit
Choose with care德 is broad and slightly grand. It also appears everywhere as a phonetic in names and place names, including the Chinese name for Germany, so context matters.
At small sizesFifteen strokes with a busy right side over a heart. It needs size; below three centimetres the lower half fills in.
Cultural noteIn classical thought 德 is something you build up by conduct and can lose, closer to standing or moral capital than to a personality trait.
Meaning
Virtue; moral force accumulated through conduct.
In Chinese thought 德 is treated as a real power, not just a niceness.
Other characters for “moral strength”
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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