緣
Symbols Emotions
connection
ㄩㄢˊ yuán
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.
The tie between two people that feels less like a choice than like something already arranged.
Before you commit
Choose with care緣 is connection by fate. It cannot mean a network link, a phone connection or a business contact — for those a Chinese reader needs 連結.
Pairs well with緣分 is the everyday two-character word, and 有緣 (having the affinity) is what people say when a meeting felt destined.
Cultural noteThe idea is Buddhist in origin and still carries that colour: what you get is not what you arranged, and losing someone can also be 緣分 running out.
Meaning
Affinity; the fated tie that brings people together.
The word Chinese reach for when two people meet and it seems meant.
Other characters for “connection”
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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