good omen

瑞

ㄖㄨㄟˋ ruì

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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A sign that things will go well. Chinese takes omens seriously enough to have several precise characters for them.

Before you commit

Choose with care瑞 opens the Chinese names for Switzerland and Sweden, 瑞士 and 瑞典, and is a very common given name. Some readers will see a name or a country before an omen.

Pairs well with祥瑞 for auspicious signs together, 瑞雪 for the timely snow that promises a good harvest - a phrase every Chinese reader knows.

At small sizesThirteen strokes with the jade radical on the left. Even and well balanced, and it holds together better small than most of this family.

Meaning

An auspicious sign or omen; propitious.

The character for a rare natural sign read as heaven's approval.

Other characters for “good omen”

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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