傲
Symbols Emotions
pride
ㄠˋ ào
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.
Pride splits in Chinese: honour in what you have done is good, but the common characters lean arrogant.
Before you commit
Choose with care傲 and 驕 are usually faults in Chinese. If you mean healthy pride in yourself, 自豪 or 榮 says it and 傲 will read as arrogant.
Pairs well with傲骨 — proud bones — is the admiring use: integrity that refuses to bend. Alone, 傲 does not carry that.
At small sizes13 strokes, three vertical elements side by side. It gets cramped small; keep the strokes generous.
Meaning
Proud, haughty; unbending.
The main character, and it points at attitude more than achievement.
Other characters for “pride”
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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