樂
Symbols Emotions
happiness
ㄌㄜˋ lè
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.
Being well and glad — Chinese separates the passing feeling from the settled condition of a good life.
Before you commit
Choose with care樂 is read le here but yue when it means music, so the single character is ambiguous out of context. 幸福 is unambiguous and closer to lasting happiness.
At small sizes樂 has fifteen strokes with fine paired elements on both shoulders; those details close up when reduced. 福 holds detail slightly better.
Cultural note福 is traditionally hung upside down at New Year, because inverted, 福倒, sounds like 福到 — fortune arrives. Upside down is intentional, not an error.
Meaning
Happy, glad; enjoyment and pleasure.
The character inside 快樂, the ordinary way to wish someone happiness.
Other characters for “happiness”
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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