子
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posterity
孫
ㄗˇ ㄙㄨㄣ zǐ sūn
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 generations still to come. Chinese says it as sons and grandsons, which is more concrete than the English word.
Before you commit
Choose with care子孫 literally names sons and grandsons. It is the normal word, but it does carry the old assumption of a male line.
Cultural note子孫滿堂 - descendants filling the hall - is a standard blessing on a long life. It is a compliment, not a boast.
At small sizesThree strokes plus ten, so the pair is light and open. It behaves well small and on curved skin.
Meaning
Sons and grandsons; descendants, posterity.
The standard phrase, and what people say when they mean future generations.
Other characters for “posterity”
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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