安
Symbols Emotions
reassurance
ㄢ ān
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.
Settling someone's worry — telling them, in effect, that they can put their mind down.
Before you commit
Choose with careAlone, 安 reads as peace and safety first. Nobody sees the word reassurance in it. If that specific sense matters, 安心 is the honest choice.
Pairs well with平安 (safe and well) is the phrase Chinese families actually wish on each other, and it is a far more natural tattoo than 安 by itself.
At small sizes6 strokes — the 宀 radical with 女 under it. Clean and balanced at any scale, including on fingers or wrists.
Meaning
Calm, settled, at ease; safe.
The character for a mind put at rest; the heart of 安心 and 平安.
Other characters for “reassurance”
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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