劍
Symbols Protection
swordsman
客
ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄎㄜˋ jiàn kè
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 whose life is the sword. Chinese names him with the sword character plus a suffix, and the choice of suffix changes his standing.
Before you commit
Choose with care客 literally means guest, and in this word it means one who wanders and belongs nowhere. 劍客 is a romantic figure, not a soldier or a fencer.
Pairs well withNothing needed - 劍客 is complete as it stands. Adding characters makes it read like a game class name rather than a person.
At small sizesTwo characters, the first at fifteen strokes with a stacked left half. Give the pair width or 劍 will lose its internal detail.
Meaning
A swordsman; a wandering fighter who lives by the blade.
The figure from martial arts fiction - independent, skilled, unattached.
Other characters for “swordsman”
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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