教
Symbols Mind
education
育
ㄐㄧㄠˋ ㄩˋ jiào yù
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.
Bringing a person up as well as teaching them. The Chinese word joins instruction with rearing.
Before you commit
Choose with care育 alone reads as to raise or rear, not as education, and 教 alone leans toward religion. It is the pair that carries the meaning.
Japanese教育 exists in Japanese with identical characters and meaning, read kyouiku. It reads as either language.
At small sizesEighteen strokes across the pair, both halves moderately open. It survives smaller sizes than most two-character words.
Meaning
Education; to educate.
The standard word - teach plus raise, covering school and upbringing together.
Other characters for “education”
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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