韌
Symbols Virtues
resilience
ㄖㄣˋ rèn
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.
Bending under pressure and coming back. Chinese has a precise character for this.
Before you commit
Choose with care韌 is a physical property first, like a tough rope. Applied to a person it is a compliment, but it is not a common standalone tattoo character in Chinese.
Pairs well with堅韌不拔, tough and immovable, is the set phrase. 韌性 is the noun, resilience.
At small sizesTwelve strokes with a narrow left element. It closes up small; give it space.
Meaning
Tough and pliable; resists tearing.
Said of leather, rope and people. The exact image of resilience.
Other characters for “resilience”
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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