合
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cooperation
作
ㄏㄜˊ ㄗㄨㄛˋ hé zuò
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.
Working with someone toward a shared end. The Chinese word is plain, common and slightly transactional.
Before you commit
Choose with care合作 is neutral and businesslike. It is what firms announce and what teachers ask children to do, and it carries no warmth by itself.
Pairs well with互助 if the sense you want is people helping each other, 同心協力 if you want the spirit rather than the arrangement.
At small sizesSix strokes plus seven, evenly weighted. Legible small; keep the strokes of 作 from touching on fine lines.
Meaning
Cooperation; working together on something.
The default word, used from schoolwork to international treaties.
Other characters for “cooperation”
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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