家
Symbols Relationships
household
ㄐㄧㄚ jiā
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 house and the people in it. One Chinese character covers the building, the family and the home you go back to.
Before you commit
Choose with care家 is very common and very warm, but it is also plain. To a Chinese reader it carries no more mystery than the English word home.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read ie or ka. Fully legible there and equally ordinary - nothing marks it as specifically Chinese.
At small sizesTen strokes under a roof radical. It holds its shape well small; the legs beneath need a little room not to merge.
Meaning
Home, family, household; also a school of thought or a specialist.
One of the most-used characters in the language, and warm in every sense.
Other characters for “household”
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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