logic

邏

輯

ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄐㄧˊ luó jí

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

Layout

Reasoning that follows rules. Chinese borrowed the English word by sound, so no old character carries the idea.

Before you commit

Choose with care邏 and 輯 mean patrol and to compile. They were picked for their sound, not their sense, so the pair carries no meaning of its own to a reader.

Pairs well with合理 for reasonable, 條理 for orderly reasoning. Both are native Chinese ideas rather than imported sounds, and both wear better.

At small sizesClose to forty strokes across the two characters. Very dense, and a poor choice for anything small or on a tight curve.

Meaning

Logic; the discipline, and the everyday sense of something being logical.

A sound-borrowing of the English word, now the only ordinary way to say it.

Other characters for “logic”

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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