coin

幣

ㄅㄧˋ bì

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

Layout

A metal piece of money. Chinese names the round coin by what it is made of or by pairing currency with the word for hard.

Before you commit

Choose with care幣 means currency broadly, not a coin specifically. If you want the round metal object rather than the idea of money, 硬幣 or 銅錢 says it and 幣 does not.

Pairs well with銅錢 for the antique coin, 金幣 for a gold coin. Three of the old coins on a red cord is a common luck charm and reads instantly.

At small sizesFourteen strokes with a wide flat top over a narrow cloth radical. The top strokes merge when inked small.

Meaning

Currency, coin, legal tender in general.

The character every kind of money shares, from coins to banknotes.

Other characters for “coin”

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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