harvest of effort

收

穫

ㄕㄡㄏㄨㄛˋ shōu huò

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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What you gather in for the work you put in. Chinese uses the harvest word for both crops and the gains of any hard season.

Before you commit

Choose with care收穫 is warm and ordinary in Chinese, closer to takeaways or gains than to anything grand. It is a good honest word, but it is not a heroic one.

Pairs well with一分耕耘一分收穫 - a measure of ploughing, a measure of harvest - is the proverb every Chinese schoolchild knows for this exact idea.

At small sizesTwo characters, around twenty-five strokes together, and 穫 is dense on both sides. This needs real size to stay readable.

Meaning

Harvest; also the gains, insight or results won from effort.

Used of a rice crop and of what you took away from a hard year alike.

Other characters for “harvest of effort”

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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