成
Symbols Life
achievement
ㄔㄥˊ chéng
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.
Something built and finished. Chinese uses the character for completing, and pairs it with the idea of arriving at a result.
Before you commit
Choose with care成 is a verb meaning to become or complete, not a noun. Alone it says accomplished rather than an accomplishment.
Pairs well with成就 for achievement as a thing you have, 有成 for having made something of yourself. Either reads as finished writing.
At small sizesSix strokes with a long hooked diagonal. Clean at small sizes, and the diagonal suits curved placements.
Meaning
To accomplish, complete, become; to succeed at.
The completion character behind success, achievement and becoming.
Other characters for “achievement”
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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