據
Symbols Mind
evidence
ㄐㄩˋ jù
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.
What a claim rests on. Chinese separates the grounds you stand on from the proof you produce.
Before you commit
Choose with care據 is a working word, not a noble one. Alone it reads as to rely on or to seize and hold, and in speech it usually means according to.
Pairs well with證據 for evidence, 根據 for grounds or basis, 論據 for the support under an argument.
At small sizesSixteen strokes, hand radical beside a crowded right side. It fills in easily and is a poor choice small.
Meaning
Grounds, basis, evidence; to rely on, to occupy.
What an argument leans against - the 據 of 證據 and 根據.
Other characters for “evidence”
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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