狂
Symbols Emotions
euphoria
喜
ㄎㄨㄤˊ ㄒㄧˇ kuáng xǐ
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.
Joy so intense it stops being ordinary — Chinese words for it all carry a hint of losing control.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means euphoria. 醉 alone will simply be read as drunk, which is not usually the intended impression.
Choose with care亢奮 sounds medical and slightly pathological in Chinese, closer to being wired than to being blissful. 狂喜 is warmer.
Pairs well with欣喜若狂 for joy past restraint, 忘我 for the self dissolving in the moment.
Meaning
Wild, ecstatic joy; delight past self-possession.
The closest match, and honest about the loss of composure euphoria implies.
Other characters for “euphoria”
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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