預
Symbols Spirit
prophecy
言
ㄩˋ ㄧㄢˊ yù yán
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.
Saying what will happen before it does. Chinese has a transparent modern word for it and an old one meaning a verse that came true.
Before you commit
Choose with care預言 is not a sacred word. It is built from before and speak, and Chinese uses it for weather forecasts and election predictions as readily as for scripture.
Pairs well with預言 stands alone perfectly well. If you want a sacred register instead, 天啟 or 神諭 carries it and 預言 does not.
At small sizesThirteen strokes then seven. Well balanced as a pair; 言 stays clean at any size, and 預 is the half that thickens.
Meaning
A prophecy, a prediction; to foretell.
The standard word, covering scripture and a pundit forecasting a match.
Other characters for “prophecy”
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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