長
Symbols Memory
immortal memory
存
ㄔㄤˊ ㄘㄨㄣˊ cháng cún
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 memory meant to outlive everyone holding it. Chinese memorial writing has fixed wording for this.
Before you commit
Choose with care長存 says endures, not remembered. It is normally said of a spirit or a reputation, so on its own it does not name memory at all.
At small sizesFourteen strokes over two open characters. Comfortable at moderate size and stable on a curve.
Cultural note永垂不朽 is the standard four-character memorial line, carved on monuments and printed on wreaths. That is the phrase this concept really belongs to.
Meaning
To live on; to endure - said of a spirit, a name or a memory.
Standard memorial wording - 精神長存, the spirit lives on.
Other characters for “immortal memory”
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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