all goes well

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意

ㄖㄨˊ ㄧˋ rú yì

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.

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The wish that everything, not one thing, turns out right. Chinese says this in a set phrase used constantly at new year.

Before you commit

Choose with care如意 literally means according to your intention. It is warm and widely liked, but on its own it is half of a longer wish and some readers will feel the other half missing.

Cultural note萬事如意, may ten thousand things go as you wish, is the standard new year greeting. The 如意 sceptre, a curved ornament given as a lucky gift, is named for the same phrase.

At small sizesSix strokes beside thirteen. 如 is clean and open; 意 stacks three elements and is the half that needs the size.

Meaning

As you wish it; things turning out the way you wanted.

Half of the standard new year wish, and understood instantly alone.

Other characters for “all goes well”

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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