工
Symbols Fortune
industry
業
ㄍㄨㄥ ㄧㄝˋ gōng yè
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.
Manufacturing and the sectors built on it. English also uses industry to mean diligence, and Chinese uses a completely different character for that.
Before you commit
Choose with careIf you mean industry as a personal virtue, hard work and application, none of these say it. That is 勤, diligence. 工業 means factories and nothing else.
Japanese工業 is identical in Japanese, read kougyou, with the same industrial meaning. Both characters are everyday in Japanese too.
At small sizesThree strokes beside thirteen. The pairing is badly unbalanced small; 工 alone is one of the cleanest characters that exists.
Meaning
Industry; manufacturing and the industrial sector.
The exact term, as in heavy industry or an industrial park.
Other characters for “industry”
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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