啟
Symbols Spirit
revelation
示
ㄑㄧˇ ㄕˋ qǐ shì
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.
Something uncovered that you could not have worked out yourself. The Chinese word is also ordinary office language for a lesson learned.
Before you commit
Choose with care啟示 is everyday business Chinese as well as scripture - 這給我們的啟示是, the lesson here is, comes out of any presentation. It reads instructive before it reads holy.
Pairs well with天啟 if you mean revelation from above. It removes the workaday reading 啟示 carries on its own.
At small sizesEleven strokes then five. 示 is very simple next to 啟, so match their visual weight or the pair looks lopsided.
Meaning
Revelation; an enlightening disclosure. Also a lesson, a takeaway.
What Chinese Bibles use, and 啟示錄 is the Book of Revelation.
Other characters for “revelation”
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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