知
Symbols Emotions
contentment
足
ㄓ ㄗㄨˊ zhī zú
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.
Having enough and knowing it — a virtue in Chinese thought rather than a mood.
Before you commit
Choose with care足 alone means enough or foot, and a Chinese reader is as likely to see the body part. The contentment sense only exists in 知足 and 滿足.
Pairs well with知足常樂 for the full proverb, 恬淡 for quiet simplicity, 心滿意足 for complete satisfaction.
Cultural note知足常樂 is one of the most repeated Chinese sayings, so 知足 arrives already carrying that whole proverb with it.
Meaning
Knowing what is enough; content with what one has.
The classical virtue itself, from 知足常樂 — the contented are the happy ones.
Other characters for “contentment”
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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