誠
Symbols Virtues
sincerity
ㄔㄥˊ chéng
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.
Saying what you actually mean, and then acting on it.
Before you commit
Choose with care誠 is a strong classical virtue with no negative shading, so it is one of the safer single characters here. It does lean toward sincerity rather than factual truth-telling.
JapaneseRead makoto in Japanese, where it was the banner character of the Shinsengumi. Outside China it is a strongly Japanese-coded glyph.
At small sizesThirteen strokes with a speech radical on the left. Keep it large enough that the left column does not fill in.
Meaning
Sincere, honest, true to one's word.
Speech plus completion: what you say, you carry out.
Other characters for “sincerity”
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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