專
Symbols Mind
concentration
注
ㄓㄨㄢ ㄓㄨˋ zhuān zhù
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.
Holding attention on one thing without slipping. Chinese barely distinguishes this from focus - the same words cover both.
Before you commit
Choose with careChinese has no word separating concentration from focus. 專注 covers both, so do not hunt for a finer distinction than the language makes.
At small sizes定 is eight strokes under a roof radical, compact and stable. 專注 is much heavier and needs more room.
Cultural note定 is one of the three trainings of Buddhist practice, beside 戒 discipline and 慧 wisdom. On its own, though, it reads first as settled, fixed, decided — dictionaries list dozens of those senses against a single Buddhist one, and the meditative reading only really surfaces in a compound like 禪定 or 入定.
Meaning
To concentrate; sustained, undivided attention.
The ordinary modern word for concentrating on a task.
Other characters for “concentration”
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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