growth of wealth

生

財

ㄕㄥㄘㄞˊ shēng cái

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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Wealth building over time. Chinese expresses this in fixed four-character wishes rather than in a single word.

Before you commit

Choose with careNo single character says wealth growing. The Chinese habit is a four-character wish such as 財源廣進, may the sources of wealth flow in widely; two characters feels clipped.

At small sizesFifteen strokes over two characters, the second carrying the shell radical for money. Well balanced and workable small.

Cultural note招財進寶 is often written as one fused glyph on shop doors and red packets, with all four characters combined into a single decorative form.

Meaning

To generate wealth; to make money productively.

From 生財有道, having sound ways of making money.

Other characters for “growth of wealth”

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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