創
Symbols Beauty
creation
ㄔㄨㄤˋ chuàng
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.
Bringing into being something that was not there. The main Chinese character for it also means a wound.
Before you commit
Choose with care創 is read chuàng for create and chuāng for wound, with one written form for both. 創傷 means trauma. Context normally settles it; a lone character has no context.
JapaneseJapanese uses 創 in the same create sense, in 創造 and 創作, so the glyph reads naturally in both languages.
At small sizesTwelve strokes with the standing knife radical on the right. Its two verticals need room or they merge into one.
Meaning
To create, originate, begin something new; also a wound or gash.
The character inside 創造 create, 創業 found a business and 創新 innovate.
Other characters for “creation”
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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