品
Symbols Beauty
taste
味
ㄆㄧㄣˇ ㄨㄟˋ pǐn wèi
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.
Judgement about what is good, in the aesthetic sense rather than on the tongue. Chinese uses one family of words for both.
Before you commit
Choose with care品 alone is the character in 商品 goods and 產品 product. Standing by itself it looks commercial rather than cultivated; 品味 avoids that entirely.
JapaneseJapanese uses 品 (hin) on its own to mean elegance or class, which Chinese does not. The same glyph reads differently in the two languages.
At small sizesSeventeen strokes over two characters. 品 is three open boxes and stays legible; 味 is the tighter of the pair.
Meaning
Taste; discernment in art, dress, food and living.
The word used when someone is said to have taste - and to savour something slowly.
Other characters for “taste”
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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