成
Symbols Life
success
ㄔㄥˊ chéng
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.
Getting what you set out to get. Chinese builds it from completing plus effort, and the two-character word is far more common than either half.
Before you commit
Choose with care成 alone does not mean success. It means to become or to complete, and readers will look for the character that follows it.
Pairs well with成功 is the complete word and the one to use if success is the message. 功 alone reads as merit or as kung fu shortened.
At small sizesSix open strokes. Scales down well and handles curves comfortably.
Meaning
To succeed, complete, become; accomplished.
The completion half of success, and a very common name element.
Other characters for “success”
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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