姊
Symbols Relationships
sister
ㄗˇ zǐ
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.
As with brother, Chinese forces the choice: elder sister or younger sister, with no neutral word sitting between them.
Before you commit
Choose with care姊 and 妹 are not interchangeable — 妹 says you are the younger. Taiwan also writes 姊 where most other places write 姐; both are correct.
Cultural note姐 doubles as a courtesy title for any young woman, as in 小姐, so a reader may take it as a form of address rather than as kinship.
At small sizesEight strokes, woman radical on the left. Narrow and tall, which suits a forearm or a spine placement.
Meaning
Elder sister, in the form standard in Taiwan.
The written word for an older sister, formal and correct.
Other characters for “sister”
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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