比
Symbols Beauty
proportion
例
ㄅㄧˇ ㄌㄧˋ bǐ lì
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.
How parts relate in size to each other and to the whole. Chinese splits this between a maths word and words for being well balanced.
Before you commit
Choose with care比例 is arithmetic. It says ratio, not harmony. If you mean a form whose parts sit well together, 勻稱 or 度 carries that and 比例 does not.
Pairs well with勻稱 is the natural pair for well proportioned, said of a body or a building.
At small sizesTwelve strokes over two characters with plenty of white space between them. Behaves well small and on curves.
Meaning
Proportion, ratio, scale.
The exact word, though it lives in maths lessons, statistics and drawing scales.
Other characters for “proportion”
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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