勇
Symbols Virtues
bravery
ㄩㄥˇ yǒng
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.
Facing what frightens you and doing it anyway.
Before you commit
Choose with care勇 is a strong classical virtue, but on its own it reads as brave, an adjective. For the quality itself use 勇氣 or 勇敢.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read yu or isamu, and used as a given name. It may be read as a name outside China.
Cultural note有勇無謀, bold but without a plan, is a standing criticism. 勇 is admired only when paired with judgement.
Meaning
Brave; valiant; bold.
The classical virtue of nerve, listed beside wisdom and benevolence.
Other characters for “bravery”
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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