unique

獨

特

ㄉㄨˊ ㄊㄜˋ dú tè

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

Layout

One of a kind. Chinese builds this from the character for alone, which brings loneliness along with it.

Before you commit

Choose with care獨 alone reads as solitary, not distinctive. Worn by itself it says alone, which is a very different statement from unique.

At small sizesTwenty-six strokes over two characters, the first dense on the right. Give it room or that half turns solid.

Cultural note獨 also carries political weight in Taiwan, where 台獨 means Taiwan independence. A standing 獨 is not a neutral character there.

Meaning

Unique, distinctive, unlike anything else.

The exact word for a quality that nothing else has.

Other characters for “unique”

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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