勇
Symbols Virtues
courage
氣
ㄩㄥˇ ㄑㄧˋ yǒng qì
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.
The nerve to face something frightening. Chinese normally says it as a two-character word rather than one character.
Before you commit
Choose with care勇 alone reads as brave rather than courage, and usually suggests physical daring. If you want the quality, use the pair.
Pairs well with勇 plus 敢 gives 勇敢, brave. 有勇無謀, bold but unthinking, is a standing warning about courage without judgement.
At small sizesTwo characters means twice the detail. Give the design room, or accept 勇 alone.
Meaning
Courage; the nerve to act.
The word a Chinese reader expects for the quality itself.
Other characters for “courage”
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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This character is one of the ten in a longer piece on what a character carries beyond its dictionary meaning.
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