信
Symbols Virtues
reliability
ㄒㄧㄣˋ xìn
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.
Being the person whose word and presence can be counted on without checking.
Before you commit
Choose with care信 is broad. Depending on context a reader may take it as trust, as religious faith, or simply as a letter in the post. That range is a strength on a wall and a weakness on skin.
JapaneseIdentical glyph in Japanese, where it also carries faith and trust. It will not read as specifically Chinese on its own.
At small sizesNine strokes, person radical plus speech. Balanced and clean; one of the safer characters for small or curved placements.
Meaning
Trustworthy; keeping one's word. Also trust, belief, a letter.
The character behind almost every Chinese expression for being dependable.
Other characters for “reliability”
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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