傲
Symbols Emotions
arrogance
ㄠˋ ào
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.
Holding yourself above other people, and letting it show.
Before you commit
Choose with care傲 is not always an insult. 傲骨 and 孤傲 admire a person who will not bow, so the same glyph can read as backbone or as conceit.
Pairs well with傲 + 骨 gives the flattering reading; 傲 + 慢 gives the damning one. The second character decides.
At small sizes13 strokes in three columns; the middle element is the first to close up. Not a good candidate for fine, small work.
Meaning
Haughty, arrogant, aloof.
The standard character, and the one in nearly every related word.
Other characters for “arrogance”
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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