正
Symbols Virtues
uprightness
ㄓㄥˋ zhèng
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.
Doing things straight, so that your conduct would survive being looked at closely.
Before you commit
Choose with care正 is extremely common and mostly grammatical, meaning correct, main, or in the middle of doing something. Alone it can look like a fragment rather than a statement.
At small sizesFive strokes, all straight. One of the most legible characters at any size or curvature.
Cultural note正 has exactly five strokes and is used across Chinese-speaking regions as a tally mark for counting in fives, which some readers will notice first.
Meaning
Upright, correct, straight; also proper and orthodox.
The plainest character for being straight in conduct.
Other characters for “uprightness”
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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