叛
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rebel
ㄆㄢˋ pàn
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.
One who refuses to obey. In Chinese the word leans towards treachery rather than romance, and its most common modern use is about teenagers.
Before you commit
Choose with care叛 is not the romantic rebel of English. It means betrayal of your own side, and appears in the words for traitor and defection - readers will hear that first.
At small sizesNine strokes in an even left-right split. It scales down cleanly and stays clear on curved placements.
Cultural note叛逆期 is the rebellious phase adolescents go through. Wearing 叛逆 will read to many Chinese speakers as adolescent rather than defiant.
Meaning
To rebel, revolt, betray; to turn against your own side.
Betrayal is built in - the character is used of traitors as much as of rebels.
Other characters for “rebel”
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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