專
Symbols Virtues
dedication
ㄓㄨㄢ zhuān
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.
Pouring your attention and effort into one thing and not letting it wander.
Before you commit
Choose with careOn its own 專 often reads as specialised or exclusive rather than devoted. 專一 means faithful to one partner, 專注 means focused. Pick the pairing that matches your meaning.
JapaneseThe same glyph exists in Japanese with the same core sense of exclusivity, so it will not be read as distinctly Chinese.
At small sizesEleven strokes stacked vertically. It suits a tall placement such as the forearm or spine.
Meaning
Single-minded, concentrated on one thing; exclusive focus.
Dedication read as undivided attention, which is what the English usually means.
Other characters for “dedication”
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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