確
Symbols Mind
certainty
ㄑㄩㄝˋ què
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.
Knowing with no room left for doubt. Chinese builds it from solid and settled rather than from a noun.
Before you commit
Choose with care確 rarely stands alone. It works inside words like 的確 and 確實, and by itself it looks like half of something.
Pairs well with確信 for firm conviction, 堅定 for unwavering resolve. Both read as complete words where 確 alone does not.
At small sizesFifteen strokes, stone radical beside a tight right side. The right half clogs easily when small.
Meaning
Certain, sure, firm; genuinely so.
The everyday word for definitely - stone-solid rather than merely likely.
Other characters for “certainty”
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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