聖
Symbols Spirit
sacred
ㄕㄥˋ shèng
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.
Set apart, not to be handled casually. One Chinese character covers sacred, holy and sage-like all at once.
Before you commit
Choose with care聖 also means sage, and in casual modern use world-class - 棋聖 is a chess master. It is not an exclusively religious character.
JapaneseThe same glyph in Japanese, read sei or hijiri, with the same holy and saintly range.
At small sizesThirteen strokes in three stacked layers. The top crowds when small; give it height rather than width.
Meaning
Sacred, holy; also a sage, or the supreme master of a skill.
Used of scripture, of saints and of Confucius the sage alike.
Other characters for “sacred”
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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