慈
Symbols Emotions
tenderness of heart
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.
A soft heart — warmth toward others that shows up in how you treat them.
Before you commit
Choose with care慈 is strongly maternal and Buddhist — it is warmth from above, parent to child or Buddha to beings, not tenderness between equals.
Pairs well with慈 + 悲 gives 慈悲, Buddhist compassion; 仁慈 is human kindness. Both read cleanly.
At small sizes13 strokes over a 心 base. The upper half is fussy, and it is the first part to blur when reduced.
Meaning
Loving-kindness, especially a parent's.
Warmth given from a position of strength or care.
Other characters for “tenderness of heart”
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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