comfort of living

舒

ㄕㄨ shū

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Living well enough to be at ease - not rich, but never anxious about the month ahead. Chinese has a precise old word for this level.

Before you commit

Choose with care安逸 sounds pleasant but often carries mild criticism in Chinese, the sense of going soft. 舒 or 小康 avoids that; 安逸 does not.

Cultural note小康 comes from the Book of Rites, where it names an ordered society one step below the ideal 大同. In ordinary use today it describes a household that is comfortable without being rich, and in mainland China it additionally echoes decades of state policy slogans.

At small sizes舒 is twelve strokes in an even left-right split. It scales down well and sits comfortably on a forearm curve.

Meaning

Comfortable, relaxed, at ease; to unfold or stretch out.

The character in 舒服 and 舒適, the everyday words for comfortable.

Other characters for “comfort of living”

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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