accountability

責

ㄗㄜˊ zé

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.

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Standing behind what you did and being willing to be called to answer for it.

Before you commit

Choose with careChinese does not split responsibility and accountability the way English does. 責 carries a distinct edge of reproach; if you want the admiring sense of owning your actions, 擔當 is what a reader will respect.

Pairs well with有擔當, meaning a person who has 擔當, is high praise about character and reads warmly.

At small sizes責 is eleven strokes and reasonably open. It holds up better small than most of the alternatives here.

Meaning

To hold answerable; the calling to account itself.

Of the single characters this is the one that genuinely means being answerable.

Other characters for “accountability”

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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