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lucky star

ㄈㄨˊ ㄒㄧㄥ fú xīng

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.

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The star that shines on you, or the person who brings luck with them. Chinese uses this as a compliment about a person.

Before you commit

Choose with care福星 is usually said of a person, not of your own luck - calling someone a 福星 means they bring fortune to everyone around them. Applied to yourself it can read as a boast.

Cultural note福祿壽, the three star gods of fortune, rank and long life, are a standing trio in Chinese homes. 福星 is the first of them, and readers may picture the figure rather than a star.

At small sizesThirteen strokes beside nine. Both characters are left-right or stacked and reasonably open; the pair works down to moderate sizes.

Meaning

A lucky star; also a person who brings good fortune to others.

The exact expression, from the idiom about a lucky star shining down.

Other characters for “lucky star”

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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