investment

投

資

ㄊㄡˊ ㄗ tóu zī

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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Putting money or effort into something now for a return later. In Chinese this is a modern commercial term, flat and unromantic.

Before you commit

Choose with care投資 is business vocabulary, not a virtue. A Chinese reader will see a finance term, roughly the way an English reader sees the word portfolio. There is no poetic sense hiding in it.

JapaneseWritten identically in Japanese and read toushi, with the same commercial meaning. This one will not be mistaken for Chinese specifically.

At small sizesTwo characters, around twenty strokes together. 資 is top-heavy and needs room; do not set this small or on a tight curve.

Meaning

Investment; to invest capital, time or effort in something.

The exact everyday word. Neither half stands alone with this meaning.

Other characters for “investment”

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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