敢
Symbols Virtues
daring
ㄍㄢˇ gǎn
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.
Willingness to try the thing that could go badly wrong.
Before you commit
Choose with care敢 is a verb and reads as an incomplete sentence, rather like the English word dare standing alone. Most readers will feel something is missing after it.
Pairs well with敢想敢做, meaning dare to think and dare to act, is a common phrase; 果敢 is the compact version if you want two characters.
At small sizesTwelve strokes, wide and left-heavy. Better on a flat, horizontal placement than on a wrist.
Meaning
To dare; to have the nerve to go ahead.
The exact verb, short and forceful.
Other characters for “daring”
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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