fruit

果

ㄍㄨㄛˇ guǒ

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

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Layout

What a plant bears, and equally the result that follows from a cause.

Before you commit

Choose with careTo a Chinese reader 果 leans at least as much toward result as toward food. 成果 achievement and 因果 cause and effect are far commoner than eating.

At small sizesEight strokes, symmetrical and open. Very safe small.

Cultural note因果 is the Buddhist word for karma, cause bearing fruit, and 善果 and 苦果 carry the same freight. On its own, though, 果 reads first as fruit and then as result — the karmic sense needs the compound to come through.

Meaning

Fruit; also result, outcome, consequence.

One character holding both the edible and the consequential sense, as English does with fruits of labour.

Other characters for “fruit”

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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