敬
Symbols Memory
tribute
ㄐㄧㄥˋ jìng
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.
Public respect paid to someone who earned it. Chinese separates the feeling of respect from the act of offering it.
Before you commit
Choose with care敬 is respect, not tribute. Alone it reads as an attitude you hold, and in letters it is stock politeness - 敬上, respectfully submitted.
Pairs well with致敬 for paying tribute, 敬愛 for someone respected and loved. 敬 does its best work as half of a pair.
At small sizesThirteen strokes split left and right. Holds up at moderate size; the left side crowds when inked very small.
Meaning
Respect; to revere; to offer something respectfully.
Both the feeling and the gesture - you 敬 a cup of wine to someone.
Other characters for “tribute”
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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