存
Symbols Spirit
existence
ㄘㄨㄣˊ cún
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.
The fact of something being there. Chinese has two plain characters for it and a modern compound for the philosophical sense.
Before you commit
Choose with care存 in modern life mostly means to save or deposit - 存錢 is to save money. The existential sense only comes through in 存在.
JapaneseBoth characters are shared with Japanese and 存在 is the same word there, read sonzai. Nothing marks it as Chinese.
At small sizesSix strokes each. Both are light and open, and the pair holds together well at small scale.
Meaning
To exist, to survive, to keep; also to store or deposit.
Existence as continuing to be there - and the character on a bank slip.
Other characters for “existence”
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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