勝
Symbols Life
triumph
ㄕㄥˋ shèng
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.
Winning, and the celebration that follows. Chinese has a distinct character for the victory song and parade.
Before you commit
Choose with care勝 also means to surpass or to be superb, as in scenic beauty. It is a verb first, so alone it reads as to win rather than a victory.
Pairs well with凱旋 is the triumphant return from victory and is the closest Chinese comes to the English sense of triumph.
At small sizesTwelve strokes with a flesh radical on the left. Reasonable small, though the right side crowds at fine detail.
Meaning
To win, prevail, be victorious; also surpassing, superb.
The plain victory character, in winning, victory and defeating.
Other characters for “triumph”
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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