敬
Symbols Virtues
respect
ㄐㄧㄥˋ jìng
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.
Treating someone as worth deference. Chinese separates reverence from placing someone above you.
Before you commit
Choose with care敬 is respect as something you perform: it appears in 敬酒, toasting, and in formal letter openings. It does not say respect me.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read kei. 敬語 is the word for honorific speech, so the association there is politeness.
Pairs well with敬 plus 業 gives 敬業, taking your work seriously. 尊重 is respect in the sense of respecting someone's choices.
Meaning
To respect; to revere; to treat seriously.
The active kind: how you conduct yourself toward others.
Other characters for “respect”
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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