孫
Symbols Relationships
grandchild
ㄙㄨㄣ sūn
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.
A son's or daughter's child. Chinese marks the generation clearly, and by default the plain word is read as male.
Before you commit
Choose with care孫 on its own is read as grandson. For a granddaughter, 孫女 removes the doubt; 孫 alone will be understood as male by most readers.
At small sizesTen strokes in a clean left-right split. Scales down well and sits comfortably on a curved placement.
Cultural note孫 is also one of the most common Chinese surnames, Sun. Standing alone in ink, a good number of readers will take it as a family name first.
Meaning
Grandchild; grandson. One generation below your children.
The standard character for the relationship, used in every family register.
Other characters for “grandchild”
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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