信
Symbols Emotions
trust in others
ㄒㄧㄣˋ xìn
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.
Putting yourself in someone else's hands and expecting them not to drop you.
Before you commit
Choose with care信 also means a letter and to believe in a religion. It is trust in the broad sense; trust in a specific person is 信任.
At small sizes9 strokes, a person beside speech. Well balanced and clearly readable at small scale.
Cultural note信 is one of the Confucian virtues, listed with 仁 義 禮 智. To a Chinese reader it carries moral weight, not just interpersonal warmth.
Meaning
To trust, to believe; faith in a person's word.
The one character that covers trust, belief and keeping one's word.
Other characters for “trust in others”
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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