冒
Symbols Life
adventure
險
ㄇㄠˋ ㄒㄧㄢˇ mào xiǎn
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.
Going somewhere uncertain because you want to. Chinese expresses this with a two-character verb built on braving danger.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means adventure. 險 alone means danger, so 冒險 is the honest minimum here.
At small sizesTwenty-five strokes over two characters, both crowded. This is a large-format choice; small versions lose the interior of 險.
Cultural note冒險 can read as rash rather than brave depending on context - the dictionary sense is acting without regard to the danger. 闖 carries more admiration for going out and trying, but it is also the character in 闖禍, causing trouble, and 闖紅燈, running a red light.
Meaning
Adventure; to venture, to take a risk.
The standard word - it covers both a thrilling journey and a reckless gamble.
Other characters for “adventure”
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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