志
Symbols Virtues
vision
ㄓˋ zhì
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.
A picture of the future worth working toward — not eyesight, and not a hallucination.
Before you commit
Choose with careEnglish vision splits into unrelated Chinese ideas: eyesight is 視力, a guiding future is 願景, personal ambition is 志. Pick the one you actually mean.
Pairs well with志向 for direction in life, 壯志 for a great ambition, 有志者事竟成 as the matching proverb.
At small sizes志 is seven strokes over a clean 心 base and reduces cleanly — one of the safer single characters for small or curved work.
Meaning
Aspiration; the direction a life is aimed in.
The classical word for a personal vision one commits to and holds.
Other characters for “vision”
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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