fruitfulness

實

ㄕˊ shí

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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Bearing plenty, whether in crops, work or a life. Chinese ties this to the character for fruit, which also means solid and real.

Before you commit

Choose with care實 is read as real, solid or honest far more often than as fruit. That is a good meaning, but it is not the one you asked for - expect a reader to see substance first.

JapaneseJapanese uses the simplified 実 and reads it mi, the fruit of a plant. The traditional 實 will read as Chinese or as formal old writing.

At small sizesFourteen strokes packed under a roof radical. The lower half is busy and closes up at small scale or on a tight curve.

Meaning

Fruit, seed; also solid, real, honest and substantial.

Fruitfulness and truthfulness sit in the same character, which reads well.

Other characters for “fruitfulness”

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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