poetry

詩

ㄕ shī

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

Layout

Verse, and the art of it. One character covers the poem, the practice and the classical canon behind both.

Before you commit

Choose with care詩 is the safest of these and has almost no unintended readings. It is also very common in women's given names in Taiwan.

JapaneseRead shi in Japanese with the same meaning, though Japanese more often uses it of Western-style verse than of classical poems.

At small sizesThirteen strokes, speech radical plus a compact right side. Balanced, and holds up reasonably small.

Meaning

A poem; poetry as an art.

Unambiguous and old - the Book of Songs is 詩經, the classic of poetry.

Other characters for “poetry”

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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