征
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campaign
ㄓㄥ zhēng
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.
A sustained military effort rather than a single fight. English also uses the word for advertising and elections, which Chinese does not.
Before you commit
Choose with careNone of these covers an advertising or election campaign. That is 活動 or 競選, and a reader seeing 征 will think only of soldiers.
At small sizesEight strokes in a balanced left-right split. It scales down well and keeps its shape on curved skin.
Cultural note征 is to march out against something, and 長征 — the Long March — is what mainland readers hear in that word first. Note that simplified Chinese folds 徵 into this same shape, so on the mainland the character does double duty for sign and characteristic as well.
Meaning
To campaign, to march out against; an expedition.
The character for a force setting out to a distant fight.
Other characters for “campaign”
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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