牆
Symbols Protection
wall
ㄑㄧㄤˊ qiáng
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 built barrier. Chinese separates the wall of a building from a free-standing boundary wall, and uses different characters for each.
Before you commit
Choose with care牆 is flatly literal. Chinese does not use wall as a metaphor for personal boundaries the way English does, so the poetic reading will not arrive.
JapaneseJapanese uses 壁 for wall and rarely writes 牆 at all. If a Japanese reading matters to you, 壁 is the character that works in both.
At small sizesSeventeen strokes, dense on the right. It needs real size; small or on curved skin the right side fills in and turns grey.
Meaning
A wall: the free-standing kind, around a house or a yard.
The ordinary word for the thing between you and the street.
Other characters for “wall”
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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