剛
Symbols Protection
unyielding
ㄍㄤ gāng
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 giving way, under any pressure. Chinese has two characters for it and they are not the same - one is hard, the other is patient.
Before you commit
Choose with care剛 is admired but not unreservedly. 剛極易折, what is hardest breaks most easily, is a standard saying; Chinese thinking prefers hardness paired with give.
Pairs well with剛毅 is firm and resolute, 剛柔並濟 is hard and soft together. The second is the one an older reader will nod at.
At small sizesTen strokes with an upright knife element on the right. Clean small, and the vertical strokes take a curve well.
Meaning
Hard, firm, unbending; the opposite of pliant.
Used of steel and of temperament; strength that resists rather than absorbs.
Other characters for “unyielding”
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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