語
Symbols Mind
language
ㄩˇ yǔ
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 system people speak in. Chinese keeps the spoken language and the written one apart and uses a different character for each.
Before you commit
Choose with care語 rarely stands alone in modern Chinese. By itself it reads as a fragment waiting for its partner rather than as a word.
At small sizesFourteen strokes with the speech radical on the left. Even and structured; fine small if the radical strokes stay apart.
Cultural noteChinese names a language by its writing or by its speech and the two do not swap: 中文 for the written language, 國語 or 華語 for the spoken one.
Meaning
Language, speech; the words people use to one another.
The character inside the name of every spoken language - 華語, 英語, 台語.
Other characters for “language”
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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