匠
Symbols Beauty
artisan
ㄐㄧㄤˋ jiàng
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.
Someone who makes things by trade and by skill. The Chinese character is old and respected, and carries one sharp edge.
Before you commit
Choose with care匠 has a second edge. 匠氣 describes work that is technically able but soulless - competent and uninspired. The lone character can carry that shadow.
JapaneseIn Japan 匠 (takumi) is wholly complimentary and is used as a given name. The Chinese reading is more workmanlike.
At small sizesSix strokes in an open three-sided frame. One of the safest characters on the site for small or curved work.
Meaning
Craftsman, artisan; a skilled tradesman.
The standing word for a maker - carpenter, mason and smith all take it as a suffix.
Other characters for “artisan”
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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