樂
Symbols Emotions
bliss
ㄌㄜˋ lè
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.
Happiness at its fullest — in Chinese the strongest words for it are religious.
Before you commit
Choose with care極樂 will be read first as 西方極樂世界, the Western Pure Land of Buddhism. It is a religious term, not a neutral word for bliss.
Choose with care樂 alone is simply happy or joyful and does not reach the intensity English bliss implies. Chinese has no everyday single word for that peak.
Pairs well with喜樂 for gladness, 至樂 for the highest joy, 安樂 for happiness with ease in it.
Meaning
Joy, happiness, pleasure taken in something.
The general word; bliss is 樂 with the volume raised rather than a separate idea.
Other characters for “bliss”
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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