懼
Symbols Emotions
fear
ㄐㄩˋ jù
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.
Being afraid — from ordinary fright to steady, long-running dread.
Before you commit
Choose with careMost people wanting this character actually mean fearlessness. 懼 alone says fear; 無懼 or 不懼 says the opposite.
Pairs well with無 + 懼 (without fear) is the phrase that carries the intent most readers assume you meant.
At small sizes懼 is 21 strokes with two eyes stacked on the right. It closes up badly small, so give it room.
Meaning
To fear; to be afraid.
The written, formal character for fear; the one used in 無懼.
Other characters for “fear”
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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