珍
Symbols Beauty
precious
ㄓㄣ zhēn
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.
Worth cherishing, whether or not it costs anything. Chinese separates costly from treasured, and only one of them flatters.
Before you commit
Choose with care貴 says expensive before it says precious - it is the 貴 of 太貴了, too pricey. For something cherished rather than costly, 珍 is the honest choice.
JapaneseIn Japanese 珍 means rare or curious rather than precious, and can carry a faintly odd or novelty flavour.
At small sizesNine strokes with the jade radical. Light, open and safe on curves and at small scale.
Meaning
Precious, rare, treasured; to value highly.
The cherishing sense - 珍惜 is to treasure what you have.
Other characters for “precious”
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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