和
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peacekeeper
ㄏㄜˊ hé
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.
Someone who keeps others from fighting. Chinese has words for peace itself, but no ordinary word for the role.
Before you commit
Choose with care和 is peace and harmony, not the person who enforces it. No Chinese character means peacekeeper the way English uses the word.
JapaneseJapan uses 和 for itself - 和食 is Japanese food, and 和 alone evokes Japaneseness. A Japanese reader may see nationality before harmony.
At small sizesEight strokes, grain radical beside a mouth. Balanced, legible small, and comfortable on a curve.
Meaning
Peace, harmony, getting along; also and, in ordinary speech.
The core peace character - quiet rather than heroic.
Other characters for “peacekeeper”
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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