志
Symbols Virtues
ambition
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.
Wanting to do something large with your life.
Before you commit
Choose with careEnglish ambition can sound self-serving. 志 does not; it reads as purpose and direction, which may be more or less than you meant.
Pairs well with志 plus 氣 gives 志氣, drive and self-respect. 立志 means to set your course.
At small sizesSeven strokes, balanced top and bottom. Reliable at any size.
Meaning
Will; aspiration; life purpose.
The classical word for what a person sets out to become.
Other characters for “ambition”
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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