英
Symbols Virtues
heroism
雄
ㄧㄥ ㄒㄩㄥˊ yīng xióng
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.
Doing what a situation demands at real cost to yourself, and being remembered for it.
Before you commit
Choose with careNeither half of 英雄 works alone. 英 by itself reads as outstanding, or as a common given-name character, or as short for England. 雄 by itself means male or masculine, as of an animal.
At small sizesTwo characters, nine and twelve strokes. Stack them vertically and allow real width; this is not a small-placement choice.
Cultural note英雄 is a heavy word in Chinese, reserved for people who died well or changed history. Applied to yourself it can read as grandiose; many people prefer 俠 or 勇.
Meaning
A hero; someone whose courage and stature set them apart.
The single characters both mislead badly, so the word is the honest choice.
Other characters for “heroism”
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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