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Symbols Beauty
poised
容
ㄘㄨㄥˊ ㄖㄨㄥˊ cóng róng
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.
Composed and unhurried under pressure. Chinese has a good word for the calm half of this and none for the ready half.
Before you commit
Choose with care從容 covers only the calm half of poised. The English sense of being poised to act - ready, on the brink - is not in it at all.
At small sizesTwenty-one strokes over two characters. The doubled figures in the first merge easily when inked small.
Cultural note從容不迫, unhurried and unpressed, is the set phrase. It is high praise for how somebody conducted themselves in a crisis.
Meaning
Composed, unhurried, at ease under pressure.
The exact word for keeping your bearing when things get difficult.
Other characters for “poised”
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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