障
Symbols Life
obstacle
ㄓㄤˋ zhàng
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.
Something physically or figuratively in the way. Chinese has several blocking characters, most of which are rarely written alone.
Before you commit
Choose with care障 rarely appears alone and now carries a strong medical association - 障礙 is the standard term for a disability or disorder. Consider whether that reading is welcome.
Pairs well with克服障礙, to overcome obstacles, is the phrase this idea lives inside. The obstacle alone is a strange thing to celebrate.
At small sizesFourteen strokes with a narrow left radical and stacked right side. The right half closes up in small work.
Meaning
A barrier, screen, obstruction; also an impairment.
The blocking character in obstacle, barrier and hindrance.
Other characters for “obstacle”
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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