孿
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twin
ㄌㄨㄢˊ luán
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.
Two born together. Chinese builds the idea from the words for pair and for born of one birth.
Before you commit
Choose with care孿 is a specialist character. Many literate readers know it only from the word 孿生 and would hesitate over it alone. 雙 is understood instantly.
Pairs well with孿生 or 雙生 if you want the meaning read without effort; 雙 alone if you prefer the idea of a matched pair to the medical fact.
At small sizesTwenty-two strokes, very dense across the top. This one needs real size or it turns into a dark block.
Meaning
Twin-born; of two children from a single birth.
The precise character, but almost never seen standing on its own.
Other characters for “twin”
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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