奇
Symbols Mind
wonder of mind
ㄑㄧˊ qí
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.
Meeting something that will not fit into what you already know, and enjoying that rather than resisting it.
Before you commit
Choose with care奇 means odd as readily as it means wondrous. 奇怪 is simply weird, so alone it can read as strange rather than marvellous.
Pairs well with奇妙 for genuinely wonderful, 神奇 for magical, 好奇 for curious. Any pairing removes the strange reading.
At small sizesEight strokes, open and well spaced. One of the safest characters in this set at small scale.
Meaning
Remarkable, extraordinary, unusual.
The plain character for anything outside the common run.
Other characters for “wonder of mind”
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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