靜
Symbols Virtues
silence
ㄐㄧㄥˋ jìng
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.
Quiet. Chinese distinguishes outward stillness from the choice not to speak.
Before you commit
Choose with care靜 is calm stillness, not the absence of sound as such. If you mean saying nothing, 默 is the character you want.
JapaneseJapan writes it 静. The traditional 靜 marks the piece as Chinese, though shizuka is a very familiar word to Japanese readers.
Pairs well with寧靜, tranquil, and 冷靜, level-headed, are both natural and widely understood.
Meaning
Still, quiet, calm.
Quiet as a state of the world and of the mind.
Other characters for “silence”
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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