風
Symbols Virtues
poise
度
ㄈㄥ ㄉㄨˋ fēng dù
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.
Bearing that stays balanced and unhurried, and reads instantly to anyone watching.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means poise. 儀 alone reads as ceremony or as an instrument, and 雅 alone is closer to tasteful than to composed, which is why the word is listed first.
Pairs well with有風度 describes someone who behaves gracefully under strain, including when losing. It is high praise about conduct rather than looks.
At small sizesNine strokes plus nine, both fairly open. This pair survives smaller sizes than most two-character options.
Meaning
Bearing; the grace and self-possession a person carries.
Poise is a quality of bearing, and Chinese names it with this word.
Other characters for “poise”
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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