姊
Symbols Relationships
sisterhood
妹
ㄗˇ ㄇㄟˋ zǐ mèi
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 bond between sisters, or between women who count as sisters. Chinese has a plain word for it, and Taiwan writes it its own way.
Before you commit
Choose with careTaiwan writes 姊 where most other places write 姐. Both are correct traditional forms, but check your font actually has 姊 before committing.
Pairs well with姊妹情深, deep feeling between sisters, states the bond rather than the relation if you want the meaning spelled out.
At small sizesSixteen strokes over two narrow characters, both with the woman radical on the left. They stack neatly in a vertical column.
Meaning
Sisters; also women who are as close as sisters. Taiwan's form, read zǐ mèi.
The standard word, in the form Taiwan writes. 姐妹 below carries the same meaning elsewhere, with a different reading.
Other characters for “sisterhood”
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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