久
Symbols Memory
timeless
ㄐㄧㄡˇ jiǔ
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.
Not belonging to any one time. Chinese has no exact match - its nearest words mean lasting a very long while.
Before you commit
Choose with care久 only means a long time. Chinese has no word for outside time in the English sense, so everything here is an approximation.
Pairs well with長久 for lasting, 永久 for permanent, 恆久 for constant. Alone, 久 mostly turns up in phrases like 好久不見, long time no see.
At small sizesThree strokes. Almost nothing can go wrong with it small, though it looks slight unless paired with a second character.
Meaning
Long in time; enduring; for a long while.
The plain duration character - long, but with an end somewhere.
Other characters for “timeless”
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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