merchant

商

人

ㄕㄤㄖㄣˊ shāng rén

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

A person who buys and sells for a living. Chinese needs the character for person attached, or the word reads as commerce instead.

Before you commit

Choose with care賈 is far better known today as a surname, read Jia, than as the word for merchant. Most readers will see a family name first and the old trade sense second.

Pairs well with商人 is neutral, 富商 means a wealthy merchant, and 儒商 describes a cultured businessperson - a genuine compliment in Chinese.

At small sizes商人 is eleven strokes beside two. The pairing looks unbalanced at small scale; set 人 slightly smaller and lower to keep it even.

Meaning

A merchant, a trader, a businessperson.

The plain word for the person; 商 alone names the trade, not the trader.

Other characters for “merchant”

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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