主
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host
ㄓㄨˇ zhǔ
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.
The one who receives guests. Chinese frames it as being the master of the occasion or the one who pays.
Before you commit
Choose with care主 mostly reads as owner or master, and in Christian writing it is the Lord. Host is only one of its senses and not the first one a reader reaches for.
At small sizesFive strokes, wide and open. Extremely robust small, though its width wants a horizontal placement.
Cultural note做東, to act as the east, means to be the one who pays. Who hosts a meal is a matter of some negotiation, and the character 東 alone can carry that meaning to a reader who knows the phrase.
Meaning
Host; master, owner, the principal party.
The character behind 主人 and 東道主, and the core of the idea.
Other characters for “host”
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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