耐
Symbols Virtues
endurance
ㄋㄞˋ nài
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.
Lasting through something long and hard.
Before you commit
Choose with care耐 almost never stands alone. A Chinese reader sees half a word and expects 耐心, patience, or 忍耐. Consider one of the pairs instead.
Pairs well with耐 plus 力 gives 耐力, stamina. 耐心 is patience.
At small sizesNine strokes in two even halves. Clean small, if you do use it alone.
Meaning
To withstand; to last.
Used of materials as well as people: heat-resistant, wear-resistant.
Other characters for “endurance”
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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