獨
Symbols Emotions
solitude
ㄉㄨˊ dú
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.
Being alone on purpose, and finding it worth having.
Before you commit
Choose with careChinese does not split solitude from loneliness as cleanly as English. 獨 alone can also mean exclusive or selfish, as in 獨佔.
JapaneseJapan uses the simplified form 独. A Japanese reader recognises 獨 but sees it as the old-style character.
At small sizes16 strokes packed into a narrow frame; the right-hand element fills in quickly. Size it generously.
Meaning
Alone, single, on one's own.
The character for doing something by yourself, without the pity 孤 carries.
Other characters for “solitude”
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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