慷
Symbols Virtues
generosity
慨
ㄎㄤ ㄎㄞˇ kāng kǎi
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.
Giving freely. Chinese says this with a two-character word; there is no single character that carries it.
Before you commit
Choose with careNeither 慷 nor 慨 stands alone. If you want a single character, use 寬 and accept that it means generous-hearted rather than generous with money.
Pairs well with大方 is the spoken everyday word for generous, but it also means tasteful and it looks plain as a design.
At small sizesTwo dense heart-radical characters, over twenty strokes together. Not a small-tattoo choice.
Meaning
Generous; open-handed and big-spirited.
The natural word. It also means impassioned, as of a stirring speech.
Other characters for “generosity”
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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