寧
Symbols Emotions
serenity
ㄋㄧㄥˊ níng
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.
Deep quiet that stays quiet — stillness that feels chosen rather than merely undisturbed.
Before you commit
Choose with care寧 also functions as a word meaning would rather, and it is extremely common in given names, so it may read as a name to a Chinese viewer.
At small sizes寧 in traditional form is fourteen strokes packed under a roof radical, with fine detail in the middle band that closes up when reduced.
Cultural note寧靜致遠 — serenity carries you far — is a well-known line from Zhuge Liang, and the phrase most educated readers will think of.
Meaning
Tranquil, peaceful, settled and undisturbed.
Carries a warmer, more inhabited calm than 靜 — the quiet of a safe house.
Other characters for “serenity”
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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