倖
Symbols Protection
survivor
存
ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄘㄨㄣˊ xìng cún
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.
Someone who came through. Chinese names the surviving rather than the survivor, and the usual word carries a note of luck rather than of strength.
Before you commit
Choose with care倖存 says you lived by luck rather than by strength. If you mean that you were tough enough to come through, 韌 carries that and 倖存 does not.
At small sizesTen strokes then six. An even, uncrowded pair that holds up small; the person radical on the left of 倖 is the thinnest part.
Cultural note活著 - to be living - is the title of a famous novel about surviving a century of upheaval, and it carries this idea in Chinese far better than any single character.
Meaning
To survive; to be left alive when others were not.
The standard word - and 倖 means by luck, which is part of its meaning.
Other characters for “survivor”
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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