志
Symbols Life
purpose
ㄓˋ zhì
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 thing a life is pointed at. Chinese distinguishes the aim a person sets for themselves from a plain stated objective.
Before you commit
Choose with care志 is ambition and resolve, not purpose in the sense of meaning. If you mean why you are here, that is 意義; 志 says where you are headed.
Pairs well with志向, the direction of one's will, and 立志, to set one's purpose. Both are read instantly and neither is ambiguous.
At small sizesSeven strokes over a heart radical. Simple, well balanced, and one of the safer characters on a curved placement.
Meaning
Will, aspiration; the direction a life is set in.
The classical word for what a person has resolved to become or do.
Other characters for “purpose”
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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