伴
Symbols Relationships
partner
ㄅㄢˋ bàn
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.
The person you are paired with, in life or in work. Chinese uses different words for the two.
Before you commit
Choose with care伴 works as a verb as much as a noun. Alone it can read as to accompany rather than the person doing the accompanying.
Pairs well with伴侶 for a partner in life, 夥伴 for a partner in work. The single character does not distinguish them and the pair does.
At small sizesSeven strokes with plenty of air between the person radical and the right side. Reliable at small sizes.
Meaning
A companion; to accompany someone.
The character at the heart of every word for partner in the personal sense.
Other characters for “partner”
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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