使
Symbols Life
mission
命
ㄕˇ ㄇㄧㄥˋ shǐ mìng
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 task you were given and mean to complete. In Chinese this is a weighty word, and a slightly official one.
Before you commit
Choose with care使命 is heavy and slightly institutional — companies write mission statements with it. Worn personally it reads as a solemn claim about yourself.
Pairs well with使命感, the sense of mission, is what Chinese says of someone driven by duty. The extra character turns the claim into a feeling.
At small sizesSixteen strokes over two evenly weighted characters. Holds up reasonably small if you keep the pair stacked.
Meaning
Mission; the charge one is entrusted with.
The serious sense — a duty carried, not an errand run.
Other characters for “mission”
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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