爭
Symbols Protection
conflict
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.
Two sides pulling against each other, from an argument to a war. Chinese distinguishes an open clash from a contradiction held inside one thing.
Before you commit
Choose with care爭 leans towards competing and quarrelling over something wanted. It does not cover the sense of being in conflict with yourself; that is 矛盾.
Pairs well with抗爭 is to struggle against something unjust, 力爭 is to strive hard for a goal. Both give 爭 a direction it lacks alone.
At small sizesEight strokes with a long hooked vertical through the middle. Legible small, and the hook survives on curved skin.
Meaning
To contend, compete, argue, fight over something.
Two hands drawn pulling at the same object; the picture is legible.
Other characters for “conflict”
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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