鬥
Symbols Life
struggle
ㄉㄡˋ dòu
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.
Fighting hard against something. Chinese separates outright combat, sustained striving, and thrashing to get free.
Before you commit
Choose with care鬥 means to fight - people, animals, opposing sides. It does not carry the inner-struggle meaning English gives the word. For struggling towards something, 奮鬥 is right.
At small sizesTen strokes forming two tall vertical halves with a gap between. That gap is essential - if it closes, the character stops reading.
Cultural note鬥 carries a political echo in mainland usage from the struggle sessions of the last century. 奮鬥 is free of that and is read as admirable effort.
Meaning
To fight, contend, struggle against.
The combat character - it means struggle in the sense of pitting yourself against.
Other characters for “struggle”
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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