favorable wind

順

ㄕㄨㄣˋ shùn

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.

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Wind at your back. In Chinese this is a travel blessing more than an image of luck, and it is what you say to someone leaving.

Before you commit

Choose with care順 also means obedient and compliant when said of a person. As a virtue that is not always a compliment in English ears, though in Chinese it reads as agreeable rather than servile.

Pairs well with一路順風, a favourable wind the whole way, is the standard farewell to a traveller. 順風 alone carries that sense of send-off clearly.

At small sizesTwelve strokes in a clean left-right split with the head element on the right. Legible at small sizes and steady on a curve.

Meaning

Smooth, favourable, going with rather than against.

The character behind every phrase about things going your way.

Other characters for “favorable wind”

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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