勇
Symbols Virtues
valor
ㄩㄥˇ yǒng
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.
Courage under real danger, shown rather than felt.
Before you commit
Choose with care勇 by itself is more like nerve than like honour. It can even be faintly critical, as in the idiom about being brave but having no plan; 勇氣 or 英勇 removes that risk.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, where the same glyph reads as bravery. Pair it with a second character if you want it taken as Chinese.
At small sizesNine strokes, sturdy and balanced. One of the better choices for a small or curved placement.
Meaning
Brave; courage that carries you forward.
The core character; everything else in this list is built from or around it.
Other characters for “valor”
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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