機
Symbols Life
chance
ㄐㄧ jī
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.
Both senses of the English word - an opening you can take, and the randomness that hands it to you. Chinese uses different characters for each.
Before you commit
Choose with careChinese does not treat chance as neutral randomness the way English does. 緣 assumes a reason behind the meeting - if you mean pure coincidence, 偶然 is more accurate.
Pairs well with隨緣, to go with what fate arranges, is a widely admired attitude and reads far better than a bare 緣.
At small sizesSixteen dense strokes, heaviest on the right. Give it size or the right half will close up.
Meaning
Opportunity, the crucial moment; also machine.
Chance as an opening, the pivot you either take or miss.
Other characters for “chance”
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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