逆
Symbols Life
adversity
境
ㄋㄧˋ ㄐㄧㄥˋ nì jìng
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.
Circumstances working against you. Chinese names it as a situation you are inside, which is why the natural word has two characters.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character reads as adversity. 厄 comes closest but Chinese readers associate it with ill omen and calamity, so 逆境 is the honest choice.
At small sizesTwenty-four strokes over two characters, 境 the denser of them. Not a small-scale design.
Cultural note逆境 almost always arrives attached to 成長 or 求生 - growing through it, surviving it. 順境 or 逆境, which one actually makes a person, is a stock school debating motion, so the word comes with the argument already attached.
Meaning
Adversity; hostile or unfavourable circumstances.
The standard word - the situation running against you, not a single blow.
Other characters for “adversity”
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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