celebration

慶

ㄑㄧㄥˋ qìng

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

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Marking something good together. Chinese separates the celebrating from the congratulating, and uses a different character for each.

Before you commit

Choose with care慶 is a formal, institutional sort of word - national days, anniversaries, ceremonies. For personal joy, 喜 is warmer and much more commonly worn.

JapaneseUsed in Japanese too, read kei, mostly in names and era words rather than in daily speech. A Japanese reader takes it as auspicious and slightly grand.

At small sizesFifteen strokes with a long sweeping leg at the base. The upper stack fills in small, but the sweep gives it a good silhouette.

Meaning

To celebrate; a celebration, an occasion worth marking.

The character in celebrate, national day and every formal festivity.

Other characters for “celebration”

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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