抱
Symbols Life
ambition in life
負
ㄅㄠˋ ㄈㄨˋ bào fù
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 make something of yourself. Chinese sorts ambition into the honourable kind and the ruthless kind, and the words are not interchangeable.
Before you commit
Choose with care野心 and 雄心 differ by one character and by everything else. 野心 means scheming self-interest, so do not wear it by mistake.
Pairs well with志 alone is the safest single character, and 立志, to set one's ambition, reads as admirable rather than grasping.
At small sizesSeventeen strokes over two characters, with 負 heavy at the base. Workable, but 志 alone is far kinder to a small placement.
Meaning
Ambition; the aims a person holds and intends to realise.
The complimentary word — ambition as something worth having.
Other characters for “ambition in life”
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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