武
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warrior
ㄨˇ wǔ
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.
Someone who fights as a calling. Chinese distinguishes the military man, its own knight-errant, and the Japanese samurai.
Before you commit
Choose with care武 is an adjective, not a person. Worn alone it says martial or military, and it is common in names, so it can read as somebody's name rather than as a statement.
Japanese武 is heavily used in Japanese, where 武士 means samurai. If you want a specifically Chinese warrior, 俠 has no common Japanese equivalent.
At small sizesEight strokes with a long diagonal and a hook. Clean and confident small - one of the better choices here for a small placement.
Meaning
Martial, military; the arts of war.
The quality rather than the person - 武術 martial arts, 武士 warrior.
Other characters for “warrior”
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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