真
Symbols Emotions
true love
愛
ㄓㄣ ㄞˋ zhēn ài
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 real thing, as against infatuation or convenience.
Before you commit
Choose with care真愛 is plain modern speech, close to advertising copy. If you want weight rather than warmth, 摯愛 or 情 reads better to an educated eye.
Pairs well with情 + 深 gives 情深, a bond that runs deep, and avoids the slight flatness of 真愛.
At small sizes13 strokes for 愛, which keeps its 心 in the middle in traditional form. That heart is the first thing lost when it shrinks.
Meaning
True love.
Direct and current; what a modern speaker would say.
Other characters for “true love”
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.
Related concepts