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undefeated
敗
ㄅㄨˊ ㄅㄞˋ bú bài
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.
Never having lost. Chinese states this as a plain fact about a record, and the phrase is used of fighters, teams and armies.
Before you commit
Choose with care不敗 begins with a negative, so a reader takes in 敗, defeat, before the negation. Some find that an unlucky shape to wear.
Pairs well with立於不敗之地 means to stand where you cannot be defeated - a classical strategic phrase, and the source of the word's dignity.
At small sizesTwo characters, both middling in density. Legible small, though the right side of 敗 can close up on curved skin.
Meaning
Undefeated; never beaten.
Exact and factual, with none of the boast that 無敵 carries.
Other characters for “undefeated”
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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