安
Symbols Protection
safety
ㄢ ān
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.
Being out of danger and settled in mind. Chinese treats safety and calm as the same idea, which is why the word for it starts with peace.
Before you commit
Choose with care安 alone reads as calm and settled, not as safety in the modern sense of no accidents. If you mean freedom from harm, 安全 is what a reader expects.
Pairs well with平安 is the phrase Chinese families actually say - safe and sound, arrive well. It is warm, extremely common, and reads as a blessing.
At small sizesSix strokes, and the 宀 radical across the top is wide. Very clean small, though that top needs horizontal room, so it suits a flat placement better than a tight curve.
Meaning
Safe, settled, at peace; free from disturbance.
宀 over 女. Traditionally explained as a household at rest — an old reading laid over the shape rather than drawn out of it. In use it is the calm, settled sense of safe.
Other characters for “safety”
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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