難
Symbols Memory
unforgotten
忘
ㄋㄢˊ ㄨㄤˋ nán wàng
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 forgotten - someone or something still held in mind long after. Chinese has no single character for it and reaches for a two-character word.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means unforgotten. 忘 alone means to forget, so never use it by itself - it says the opposite of what you intend.
Pairs well with永誌不忘, never to be forgotten, is the fixed phrase used on memorials. 難忘 is the short everyday form of the same idea.
At small sizes難忘 is nineteen strokes beside seven - a lopsided pair. Size for 難, or its left side will fill in first.
Meaning
Hard to forget; unforgettable.
The natural Chinese for this idea, and the one a reader understands instantly.
Other characters for “unforgotten”
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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