兵
Symbols Protection
weapon
ㄅㄧㄥ bīng
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.
Anything made to fight with. The classical single character for weapons has drifted, and now reads first as the soldier holding them.
Before you commit
Choose with care兵 alone reads as soldier today, not as weapon. If you want the object rather than the man, you need 武器 or 兵器.
Pairs well with兵法, the art of war, is the phrase that gives 兵 its weight. On its own the character is plain rather than impressive.
At small sizesSeven strokes with a wide flat top and two short legs. Stable and legible small; the base needs a little horizontal room.
Meaning
Weapons in classical usage; a soldier or troops in modern usage.
The word inside 兵法, the art of war, where it still means arms.
Other characters for “weapon”
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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