定
Symbols Emotions
quiet mind
ㄉㄧㄥˋ dìng
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.
A mind that has stopped churning — the aim of sitting practice, not merely a good mood.
Before you commit
Choose with care定 has ordinary meanings too — to fix, to decide, certain. Its meditative sense comes from 禪定 and is not automatic to every reader.
At small sizes8 strokes under a roof radical, open and stable. The cleanest small choice in this group.
Cultural note定 renders the Sanskrit samadhi in Buddhist texts. Among people who sit, the meaning is unmistakable.
Meaning
Settled concentration; meditative stillness.
The Buddhist term for a mind that has come to rest.
Other characters for “quiet mind”
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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