決
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duel
鬥
ㄐㄩㄝˊ ㄉㄡˋ jué dòu
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.
A fight arranged between two people. Chinese has no single character for it; the natural words are two-character and perfectly ordinary.
Before you commit
Choose with careThere is no single character for duel. 決鬥 is two characters because the idea needs both - the deciding and the fighting.
At small sizesTwo characters, the second at ten strokes with a hollow frame. Give the pair some width or the second one clogs.
Cultural noteFormal duelling is a European tradition rather than a Chinese one. The closer historical practice is 比武, a contest of skill fought in front of witnesses.
Meaning
A duel: a settled, formal fight between two people.
The direct word, used for pistols at dawn and for the idea generally.
Other characters for “duel”
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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