安
Symbols Emotions
security
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 safe and knowing it — both physical safety and the settled feeling that nothing is about to go wrong.
Before you commit
Choose with care安 is calm and safety together. The emotional sense English calls a feeling of security is 安全感, and one character will not carry it.
At small sizes6 strokes. Among the most legible characters on this whole site.
Cultural note安 is one of the most common characters in Chinese given names and in blessings for travellers. It reads as a good wish, never as a warning.
Meaning
Safe, calm, settled.
The single character behind almost every Chinese word for safety.
Other characters for “security”
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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