志
Symbols Virtues
willpower
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.
The capacity to make yourself do the hard thing.
Before you commit
Choose with care志 is aspiration and direction, not the force that gets you out of bed. For that force, 毅力 is the accurate word.
Pairs well with意志堅強, strong-willed, and 立志, to set one's will, are both idiomatic.
At small sizesSeven strokes over a heart radical. Legible small and on curves.
Meaning
Will; what the heart is set on.
The classical character for directed will.
Other characters for “willpower”
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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