慈
Symbols Emotions
tenderhearted
ㄘˊ cí
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.
Soft towards other people's suffering — quick to feel for someone and quick to give in to them.
Before you commit
Choose with care慈 leans downward in age — a parent to a child, an elder to the young, a deity to worshippers. Between equals or partners it sounds odd.
Pairs well with慈悲 for compassion in the Buddhist sense; 溫柔 for warmth and gentleness towards a partner.
Cultural note慈 is heavily Buddhist through 慈悲, compassion. Many readers will take the character as a religious statement.
Meaning
Kind, loving, tender towards those in your care.
The warmth of a parent or an elder; the 慈 in 慈悲 and 慈母.
Other characters for “tenderhearted”
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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