obedience

順

ㄕㄨㄣˋ shùn

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.

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Going along with what is asked, from deference rather than agreement.

Before you commit

Choose with care順 is much warmer than English obedience. Its base sense is smooth or going well, as in a favourable wind, so it reads as harmony with others rather than as submission.

Pairs well with孝順 means filial and obedient towards parents and is the most common home for this character in daily speech.

At small sizesTwelve strokes in two clean vertical halves. Legible at moderate size and reasonably forgiving on curves.

Meaning

Compliant, going with rather than against; also smooth and favourable.

Obedience as flowing with, which is how Chinese frames it.

Other characters for “obedience”

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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