笃 Dǔ · Steadfast
$5.00 USD · tax included at checkout
✦ Native-speaker verified — one honest caveat comes with it: 笃 is also the classical word for critical illness, so never a get-well gift. The notes included with your order name the rooms where it belongs.
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Instant email delivery · Vector SVG + numbered certificate · Unlimited personal-tattoo licence
Not talent — the promise that you will still be at it in year nine.
笃 Dǔ · Steadfast — an original Chinese calligraphy tattoo design cut in the clerical hand credited to Cheng Miao — the Qin prison clerk who spent ten quiet years regularising three thousand characters instead of performing brilliance. Worn in this hand, 笃 does not promise talent.
In Chinese thought, dǔ means steadfast — sincere devotion, the slow horse that never stopped — as the Analects puts it: "Steadfast in faith and fond of learning; guard the good Way to the death."
Your download includes:
- Crisp vector artwork (SVG) — any size, any placement
- Numbered Certificate of Authenticity
- Unlimited licence for your own tattoo
Native-speaker verified · Instant digital download · Not AI-generated
Digital product — no physical item shipped.