戀
Symbols Emotions
romance
ㄌㄧㄢˋ liàn
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.
Love with the sweetness and drama kept in — courtship rather than long companionship.
Before you commit
Choose with care浪漫 was chosen to sound like romantic; its characters read literally as waves and unrestrained. Educated readers know this and it reads as modern and imported, not classical.
Pairs well with戀人 (lovers), 初戀 (first love) and 浪漫 for the atmosphere. 愛情 is romantic love as a whole.
At small sizes戀 is 23 strokes with two 糸 elements crowding the top. Not a small-tattoo character.
Meaning
Romantic love; being in love.
The character Chinese uses for the romance itself, not the affection behind it.
Other characters for “romance”
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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