備
Symbols Protection
preparedness
ㄅㄟˋ bèi
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.
Being ready before you need to be. Chinese ties this to a proverb almost every reader can finish.
Before you commit
Choose with care備 is practical rather than heroic. It covers stocking supplies and installing equipment as readily as it covers steeling yourself.
At small sizesTwelve strokes, tall and narrow with a person radical. Reasonable small; keep the horizontal strokes well separated.
Cultural note有備無患 - with preparation there is no calamity - is known to every reader. 備 alone will bring that proverb to mind.
Meaning
To prepare, to have ready; provision, equipment.
The standard character for readiness, from 準備 to 設備.
Other characters for “preparedness”
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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