獨
Symbols Protection
independence won
立
ㄉㄨˊ ㄌㄧˋ dú lì
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.
Standing on your own after breaking free. Chinese says it in two characters, and in Taiwan those two characters are political.
Before you commit
Choose with care獨 alone means solitary and can read as lonely. The independence sense only appears once 立 is beside it.
At small sizes獨 is sixteen crowded strokes next to a five-stroke 立. The pair looks unbalanced small; allow the first character extra space.
Cultural noteIn Taiwan 獨立 carries an immediate political reading - 台獨, Taiwan independence. Expect any reader there to hear that first.
Meaning
Independence; standing alone, self-governing or self-supporting.
The standard word for a country, a business or a grown child.
Other characters for “independence won”
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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