天
Symbols Beauty
natural beauty
然
ㄊㄧㄢ ㄖㄢˊ tiān rán
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.
Beauty owed to nature rather than to effort or artifice. The Chinese words for it double as marketing language.
Before you commit
Choose with care天然 is commercial language first. A Chinese reader meets it on packaging every day, so it can read as a product claim rather than as praise.
At small sizesSixteen strokes over two characters, with a row of short strokes under the second. That row greys out first.
Cultural noteFor a person the set phrase is 天生麗質, beauty one was born with. It runs to four characters and no shorter form carries the meaning.
Meaning
Natural, not artificial; occurring of itself.
The word on food labels and cosmetics, and on scenery that needed no help.
Other characters for “natural beauty”
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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