ornament

飾

ㄕˋ shì

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

Decoration added to a made thing. Chinese distinguishes the decorating from the pattern that does the decorating.

Before you commit

Choose with care飾 is a verb as much as a noun, and it also means to gloss over or cover up - 掩飾 is to conceal. That second sense is close enough to be felt.

Pairs well with裝飾 for decoration in general, 紋飾 for ornamental patterning worked into an object.

At small sizesFourteen strokes with the food radical on the left. That radical is compact and busy, and it is where small versions go first.

Meaning

To decorate, adorn; ornament, trimming.

The character in 裝飾 decoration and 首飾 jewellery.

Other characters for “ornament”

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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