同
Symbols Relationships
together
ㄊㄨㄥˊ tóng
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.
Doing something with someone else. Chinese has no single character that carries this alone as English does.
Before you commit
Choose with care同 means same before it means together. A reader meeting it alone will think identical or the same as, which is close to the English but not quite it.
Pairs well with白頭偕老, to grow old together with white hair, is the standard wedding wish and the warmest way to say this idea in Chinese.
At small sizesSix strokes, square and open. One of the most reliable characters at small sizes and on curved skin.
Meaning
Same; alike; together with.
The character in 一同 and 同行; the sense of together is real but secondary.
Other characters for “together”
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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