合
Symbols Relationships
partnership
夥
ㄏㄜˊ ㄏㄨㄛˇ hé huǒ
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.
Two parties working as one. In Chinese this is largely a commercial word, and the warm sense needs different characters.
Before you commit
Choose with care合夥 is a business term. It has no romantic or personal reading at all, so it is the wrong choice if you mean a partnership between two people in life.
Pairs well withFor the personal sense use 伴侶, a life partner, or 同心, of one heart. Neither carries the accounting-office tone that 合夥 does.
At small sizesSix strokes plus fourteen, an uneven pair. Match their visual weights or the second character dominates.
Meaning
Partnership; going into business jointly.
The standard commercial term, used in company law and in speech.
Other characters for “partnership”
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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