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hospitality
客
ㄏㄠˋ ㄎㄜˋ hào kè
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.
Treating guests well. Chinese states it as a trait or an act rather than as an abstract virtue.
Before you commit
Choose with careThere is no single character for hospitality. 好客 is an adjective describing a person, so on skin it reads as a claim about yourself rather than a virtue named in the abstract.
At small sizesSix strokes plus nine, both open and well balanced. The pair stays legible at small sizes.
Cultural note賓至如歸, guests arrive and feel they have come home, is the phrase inns and hosts use for this ideal. It says the thing far better than any one character can.
Meaning
Hospitable; fond of having guests.
The trait itself, said of a person or of a whole region.
Other characters for “hospitality”
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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