軍
Symbols Protection
army
ㄐㄩㄣ jūn
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.
An organised fighting force. Chinese has a clean single character for it, used in every rank, unit and branch name.
Before you commit
Choose with care軍 is institutional, not heroic. It reads like a word from a uniform patch or a news report rather than something with feeling behind it.
Pairs well with將軍 is a general, 軍人 a serviceman, 從軍 to enlist. The character does its best work as part of a word.
At small sizesNine strokes, a cart under a cover, with one long horizontal at the base. Legible small; keep the base stroke from thinning.
Meaning
An army; the military; a large formation of troops.
The building block of every military word from navy to veteran.
Other characters for “army”
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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