誠
Symbols Virtues
sincerity of heart
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.
Sincerity that goes all the way down, with nothing held back or arranged for effect.
Before you commit
Choose with care誠 is the formal virtue and can read a little austere. If you mean sincerity as warmth towards a person rather than as moral integrity, 真心 is what a Chinese reader would expect.
At small sizesThirteen strokes and left-right split. Reliable at moderate size, poor below roughly three centimetres.
Cultural note赤子之心, the heart of a newborn child, is the classical phrase for undamaged sincerity. It sits behind 赤誠 and is worth knowing if you choose that pair.
Meaning
Sincere and true; the same on the inside as on the outside.
The classical virtue of sincerity, and the character every reader knows for it.
Other characters for “sincerity of heart”
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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