拜
Symbols Spirit
worship
ㄅㄞˋ bài
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.
Bowing before something greater. The main Chinese character names a physical action - the bow itself - rather than an inner attitude.
Before you commit
Choose with care拜 is used constantly for ordinary courtesy - 拜訪 is to visit, 拜託 is please. A reader may see politeness before piety.
JapaneseJapanese writes 拝. The traditional 拜 reads as Chinese, or as deliberately calligraphic.
At small sizesNine strokes with several parallel horizontals close together. Those bars merge when it is inked small.
Meaning
To bow in worship or respect; to pay a formal visit.
The bodily act - hands together, head lowered, at a temple or a grave.
Other characters for “worship”
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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