精
Symbols Beauty
refinement
ㄐㄧㄥ jīng
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.
Polish and fineness of quality, in an object or in a person. The Chinese character comes from grain sorted down to the best.
Before you commit
Choose with care精 is broad and not always flattering. It means essence and skill, but it is also the character in words for sperm and for a spirit or demon.
Pairs well with精緻 for fine workmanship, 精進 for steady improvement, 精華 for the best part of something.
At small sizesFourteen strokes, rice radical beside a stacked right half. It is even enough to take moderate reduction, but below roughly three centimetres that right half closes up.
Meaning
Refined, fine, choice; essence, energy; skilled at something.
Rice husked and sorted, and by extension anything worked to a high finish.
Other characters for “refinement”
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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