兵
Symbols Protection
soldier
ㄅㄧㄥ bīng
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 person who does the fighting. Chinese has several characters for it, split by rank and by how much respect each one carries.
Before you commit
Choose with care兵 is rank-and-file. It has no heroism built in; 士 is the character that carries dignity, which is why it appears in words like 勇士 and 戰士.
At small sizesSeven strokes, wide-topped and stable. Scales down well, though the two short legs need clean separation.
Cultural note卒 also means to die, and is the pawn in Chinese chess - the piece that can never retreat. It reads as expendable, so avoid it if that is not your meaning.
Meaning
A soldier; troops; the ordinary ranks.
The plain, neutral word - a soldier, not an officer.
Other characters for “soldier”
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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