傳
Symbols Life
legacy of life
承
ㄔㄨㄢˊ ㄔㄥˊ chuán chéng
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.
What you leave behind in other people. Chinese separates the estate you leave from the tradition you hand on, and the second is usually what is meant.
Before you commit
Choose with care遺產 is the legal word for legacy and means the money and property in an estate. If you mean what you leave in people, 傳承 is the right choice.
Cultural note傳承 is the word for a master passing a craft to an apprentice, so it carries lineage and obligation rather than sentiment.
At small sizesTwenty-one strokes across two dense characters. This one needs real size or the left halves close up.
Meaning
To hand down and carry on; the passing of a craft, a name or a value.
The living sense of legacy — something received and passed further along.
Other characters for “legacy of life”
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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