敬
Symbols Emotions
reverence
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.
Deep respect directed upward — to teachers, ancestors, or the sacred.
Before you commit
Choose with care敬 is also ordinary politeness — it opens formal letters and accompanies a toast. It is respect, not worship.
JapaneseRead kei or uyamau in Japanese, with the same meaning, so the glyph reads naturally to a Japanese eye as well.
At small sizes13 strokes split evenly left and right. Balanced and forgiving at small scale.
Meaning
To revere; to honour; respectful.
The central character for respect shown, not merely felt.
Other characters for “reverence”
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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