俠
Symbols Virtues
chivalry
ㄒㄧㄚˊ xiá
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.
Using your strength for people who have none, on your own initiative and outside official channels.
Before you commit
Choose with care俠 is not European chivalry. There is no courtly love, no ladies and no knightly rank in it; it is a lone fighter helping the weak and defying corrupt authority.
At small sizesNine strokes, person radical on the left. Compact and legible small.
Cultural noteMost Chinese readers connect 俠 to wuxia novels, films and games before anything else, though Chinese media now mostly writes about that genre in the past tense. The association is affectionate but unmistakably genre, rather like ronin in Japanese.
Meaning
The knight-errant spirit; righting wrongs by personal courage.
The closest Chinese idea to chivalry, and a much-loved one.
Other characters for “chivalry”
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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