解
Symbols Mind
problem solving
決
ㄐㄧㄝˇ ㄐㄩㄝˊ jiě jué
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.
Getting a problem dealt with. Chinese frames it as untying and then settling, not as finding an answer.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means problem solving. 解 on its own is more likely read as to explain or to untie than as solving anything.
Pairs well with迎刃而解, a set phrase for a problem that splits open at the first touch of the blade, is the classical picture of easy solving.
At small sizesTwenty strokes across the pair, with 解 dense through the middle. Give it real room.
Meaning
To solve, resolve, settle a problem for good.
The standard word - untie the knot, then close the matter.
Other characters for “problem solving”
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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