默
Symbols Mind
silence of mind
ㄇㄛˋ mò
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.
The inward quiet of not speaking and not arguing with yourself. Chinese separates outward stillness from the choice to say nothing.
Before you commit
Choose with care默 can read as withholding. 沉默 is also the silence of someone refusing to answer, so this is not automatically a serene character.
Pairs well with靜默 for reverent silence, 默默 for doing something quietly without announcing it. Both are gentler than 默 alone.
At small sizesSixteen strokes, black radical on the left with four dots beneath. Those dots close up small - allow size.
Meaning
Silent; choosing not to speak.
Silence as a decision rather than as an absence of noise.
Other characters for “silence of mind”
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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