pillar

柱

ㄓㄨˋ zhù

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

The upright that holds a roof up, and the person who does the same for a family or a country. Chinese uses different characters for the two.

Before you commit

Choose with care柱 is purely the physical post. The English sense of a pillar of the family does not travel with it - that is 支柱, or 棟樑 for a country's leading talent.

Pairs well with國之棟樑, a pillar of the nation, is the set phrase for someone a country depends on. 頂樑柱 is the same idea inside a family.

At small sizesNine strokes, wood radical on the left and a simple right side. Clean and legible small, and it suits a vertical placement.

Meaning

A column or pillar; the upright post of a building.

The literal architectural object, wood radical and all.

Other characters for “pillar”

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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