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What a Japanese person actually thinksReads like a label. It's the character on a sumo stable's sign, on a bag of flour (強力粉), on the 'strong' setting of things. Alone, it lands as generic rather than powerful.
Meaning
- Literally
- power / strength
- Actually
- Power, strength, force. The plain dictionary noun.
Scores
Naturalness●●●●●
It's a completely normal word, correctly written.
Coolness●●●●●
Simple to the point of plainness. Only three strokes — visually it's thin and doesn't carry a tattoo the way a denser character does.
Watch out
- lowThree strokes means very little visual mass. At small size it reads as a doodle rather than a character.
Get this instead
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剛
gō
hardness; unyielding strengthStrength as a quality of character rather than a physical quantity. Much denser and more striking.
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不撓不屈
futō fukutsu
indomitableIf you mean strength-as-endurance, this actually says it.
On skin
力
Orientation: either
Heavy brush. This character needs weight or it disappears.