學
Symbols Mind
learning
ㄒㄩㄝˊ xué
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.
Taking in what you did not know before. Chinese treats it as two motions: receiving, then repeating until it stays.
Before you commit
Choose with care學 is a fine character but an institutional one - it is the 學 of school, university and subject. It reads as education more than as personal growth.
JapaneseJapanese uses the simplified-style 学. The traditional 學 is understood there but reads as formal or as Chinese.
At small sizesSixteen strokes with a busy crown. The top clogs first when small; keep the three upper elements distinct.
Meaning
To learn, to study; also learning itself, and a school.
The single character behind school, scholarship and every academic field.
Other characters for “learning”
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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