喜
Symbols Emotions
joy
ㄒㄧˇ xǐ
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.
Bright, expressed happiness — the kind that shows on the face and gets celebrated.
Before you commit
Choose with care喜 leans toward occasions — weddings, births, good news — more than toward an inner state. For a private, steady joy, 悅 reads better.
At small sizesTwelve strokes stacked in tidy horizontal bands, which stay readable when small. One of the more tattoo-friendly characters here.
Cultural noteThe doubled form 囍 is strictly a wedding character. It is charming but it announces a marriage, so avoid it unless that is the point.
Meaning
Joy, gladness; happy occasions and celebration.
The festive word, attached to weddings and good news rather than quiet moods.
Other characters for “joy”
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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