樂
Symbols Beauty
music
ㄩㄝˋ yuè
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.
Organised sound. The character for it is the same one that means joy, told apart only by how it is read aloud.
Before you commit
Choose with care樂 by itself is ambiguous. Most readers seeing it alone think happiness first, because 快樂 is far more common than the musical sense.
JapaneseJapanese writes 楽 for both senses, read gaku or tanoshii. The traditional 樂 is understood but marks the writing as Chinese.
At small sizesFifteen strokes with a crowded upper half. It turns into a grey block when small - allow generous size.
Meaning
Music, read yuè; joy or happiness, read lè.
One written form for both music and happiness, separated only in speech.
Other characters for “music”
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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