luck

運

ㄩㄣˋ yùn

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

Chance falling your way. Chinese distinguishes running luck, auspicious omens and general blessing, and 運 alone is neutral about which direction it runs.

Before you commit

Choose with care運 alone is not good luck. 幸運 is lucky and 厄運 is misfortune - the same character sits in both. Wearing it bare leaves the meaning open.

Pairs well with好運 or 幸運 for good luck specifically. Two characters here settle a genuine ambiguity rather than padding the design.

At small sizesTwelve strokes with an enclosing sweep at the lower left. That long stroke wants space and gets distorted on tight curves.

Meaning

Luck, fortune, the way things turn out; also to move or transport.

The character in both good luck and bad luck - direction comes from context.

Other characters for “luck”

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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