情
Symbols Emotions
sentiment
ㄑㄧㄥˊ qíng
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.
Feeling in the human sense — affection, attachment and the ties they create between people.
Before you commit
Choose with care情 covers an enormous range — romance, friendship, family feeling, and also the plain facts of a situation, as in 情況. Its meaning depends entirely on what it sits beside.
Pairs well with情義 (feeling and duty together) is what Chinese admires between friends; 深情 is deep affection; 有情 means having a heart.
At small sizes11 strokes with a narrow heart radical on the left. It reduces cleanly; only below roughly two centimetres does the left edge close up.
Meaning
Feeling, affection, sentiment; also circumstance.
The broadest feeling word in Chinese and the one people write.
Other characters for “sentiment”
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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