信
Symbols Virtues
trustworthiness
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.
Being someone whose word holds — reliability proven by keeping promises rather than by declaring good intentions.
Before you commit
Choose with care信 by itself is read as trust or belief, and it is also the everyday word for a letter in the post. It says trust, not trustworthy person.
JapaneseSame glyph in Japanese, read shin or makoto, and very common in given names. A Japanese reader will assume a name before a virtue.
Pairs well with信義 for honour, 誠信 for integrity in business, 守信 for one who keeps promises.
Meaning
Trust, good faith, keeping one's word.
The classical virtue of matching speech to action; still the default word for trust today.
Other characters for “trustworthiness”
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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