好
Symbols Virtues
curiosity
奇
ㄏㄠˋ ㄑㄧˊ hào qí
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.
Wanting to know for its own sake — the pull toward whatever has not been explained yet.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means curiosity. 奇 alone reads as strange or odd, and can describe a person as peculiar rather than inquisitive.
Pairs well with好奇心 for a curious nature, 求知 for the appetite to know, 探索 for exploring.
Cultural note好奇 is neutral to positive in Chinese, without the English shadow of curiosity killing the cat. That warning is not part of the phrase.
Meaning
Curious; drawn to what is novel or unexplained.
The ordinary word for curiosity, used of children and scientists alike.
Other characters for “curiosity”
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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