靈
Symbols Spirit
spirit energy
氣
ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄑㄧˋ líng qì
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 animating energy of living things, with the spirit sense made explicit - which takes two characters, because one leaves it out.
Before you commit
Choose with care靈氣 also describes places and people. A mountain with 靈氣 has an uncanny air, and a bright child is said to have it - it is not only an inner force.
JapaneseThese are the characters of reiki, written 霊気 in modern Japanese. The traditional 靈氣 reads as Chinese or as deliberately old.
At small sizes靈 alone is twenty-four strokes. The pair is very dense and needs real size, or it becomes two dark squares.
Meaning
Spiritual energy; also the numinous air of a place or a person.
The exact phrase, and the one Japanese reiki is written with.
Other characters for “spirit energy”
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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