悅
Symbols Emotions
delight
ㄩㄝˋ yuè
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.
Pleasure that lands quickly and lightly — pleased rather than overjoyed.
Before you commit
Choose with care悅 is quiet and inward. If you want delight that shows — laughter, celebration — 喜 or 歡 is the brighter character.
At small sizesTen strokes, a slim heart radical beside a balanced right half. It reduces well and suits narrow vertical placements.
Cultural noteThe Analects opens with 學而時習之，不亦說乎 — to learn and keep coming back to it, is that not a delight. The received text writes 說 there and reads it as 悅, and 悅 has kept that quiet, studious kind of pleasure.
Meaning
Pleased, delighted; gladness felt inwardly.
The precise character for being delighted, with the heart radical carrying the feeling.
Other characters for “delight”
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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