money

錢

ㄑㄧㄢˊ qián

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

Cash, the stuff you spend. Chinese has a blunt everyday word for it and several more dignified ones for wealth in general.

Before you commit

Choose with care錢 is literal cash and reads that way - closer to the English word dosh than to wealth. It is also a very common surname, Qian, so some readers will see a family name.

JapaneseJapanese writes it 銭 in the simplified postwar style and uses it mainly for an obsolete coin. Traditional 錢 reads as Chinese to a Japanese eye.

At small sizesSixteen strokes, the metal radical on the left and two crossed spears stacked on the right. The right side fills in quickly when small.

Meaning

Money, cash, coin. The plain everyday word.

What anyone says when they mean money in the pocket sense.

Other characters for “money”

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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