戰
Symbols Protection
battle
ㄓㄢˋ zhàn
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.
A fight, whether an engagement between armies or a personal struggle. Chinese uses one heavy character for both.
Before you commit
Choose with care戰 is a big word. It reads as real warfare, so used for a personal fight - illness, addiction - it is deliberately dramatic rather than neutral.
JapaneseJapanese writes this as 戦. The traditional 戰 is legible there but reads as archaic or Chinese.
At small sizesSixteen strokes with a crowded left half. Needs generous scale; small, the two boxes on the left merge into a blot.
Meaning
To fight; a battle, a war, a contest.
The core character in every Chinese word about warfare.
Other characters for “battle”
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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