諾
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promise
ㄋㄨㄛˋ nuò
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.
Giving your word. Chinese has an exact single character for it, and a long tradition of taking it seriously.
Before you commit
Choose with care諾 is written rather than spoken. Nobody says it alone in conversation, and outside its set phrases some readers will need a moment to place it.
At small sizesSixteen strokes, speech radical on the left against a busy right. Allow size or the pairing turns grey.
Cultural note一諾千金, one promise worth a thousand in gold, is the standard phrase, from the reputation of Ji Bu, whose word was said to be worth more than money. 諾 carries that weight.
Meaning
A promise given; to assent, to say yes.
The character in 承諾 and in the classic phrases about keeping one's word.
Other characters for “promise”
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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