婚
Symbols Relationships
marriage
ㄏㄨㄣ hūn
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 tie between two married people. Chinese thinks of it as a knot tied by fate as much as by choice.
Before you commit
Choose with care婚 reads as the act of marrying rather than the marriage, and a reader expects a second character after it. 緣 says the connection far more elegantly.
Cultural note紅線, the red thread tied by the old man of the moon, is the image behind 姻緣: two people connected long before they meet.
At small sizesEleven strokes, woman radical on the left. Narrow and stable, and it holds up well on a curved placement.
Meaning
Marriage; to marry, to wed.
The marriage character, though it rarely stands alone in modern writing.
Other characters for “marriage”
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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