虛
Symbols Emotions
vanity
榮
ㄒㄩ ㄖㄨㄥˊ xū róng
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.
Caring about the appearance of status — a fault in Chinese, and read plainly as one.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means vanity. 虛榮 is the honest translation and it is unambiguously critical — choose it only if you mean it about yourself.
At small sizes虛榮 runs 12 and 14 strokes, both wide and layered. The pair takes up real space and does not shrink gracefully.
Cultural noteThe everyday phrase is 虛榮心, a vain heart, usually said of someone else and never as a compliment.
Meaning
Vanity; hollow glory.
The real word, built from empty plus honour — the criticism is in the construction.
Other characters for “vanity”
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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