禮
Symbols Virtues
propriety
ㄌㄧˇ lǐ
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.
Knowing the right way to behave towards each person in each situation, and doing it.
Before you commit
Choose with care禮 also means a gift or present in daily use, as in 送禮, to give a gift. That reading is very common and may come to a modern reader first.
Pairs well with禮貌 means politeness in everyday manners; 有分寸 praises someone who knows exactly how far to go with people.
At small sizesEighteen strokes in the traditional form, and the simplified form is far shorter. It is dense and demands generous size.
Meaning
Propriety, courtesy, correct conduct; also ceremony and a gift.
The one character covering manners, ritual and social rightness together.
Other characters for “propriety”
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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