忍
Symbols Virtues
restraint
ㄖㄣˇ rěn
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.
Holding back a reaction you are fully entitled to have.
Before you commit
Choose with care忍 is endurance under pressure, closer to putting up with something than to poised self-control. It carries real strain, which is either exactly what you want or not at all.
JapaneseWidely known in Japanese as nin, including in the word for ninja. Many viewers will read it as Japanese first.
At small sizesSeven strokes — 刃 above 心. Simple, striking and one of the few in this batch that works genuinely small.
Meaning
To endure, to bear, to hold back; patience under provocation.
The character for swallowing a reaction, and the most tattooed of this group.
Other characters for “restraint”
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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