熱
Symbols Virtues
zeal
忱
ㄖㄜˋ ㄔㄣˊ rè chén
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.
Enthusiasm carried to the point of commitment — energy pointed at something that matters to you.
Before you commit
Choose with care忱 alone will not be read as zeal; most readers only meet it inside 熱忱. Use the two-character word if you want to be understood.
Choose with care狂熱 is how Chinese describes fanatics and mania. Pick it only if you mean the extreme, and know it is not a compliment.
Pairs well with滿腔熱忱 for zeal filling the chest, 全力以赴 for giving everything to it.
Meaning
Zeal; earnest, wholehearted devotion to a cause or craft.
The closest match, with sincerity built in rather than mere excitement.
Other characters for “zeal”
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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