profit

利

ㄌㄧˋ lì

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.

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What is left after costs, and by extension anything gained. The Chinese character also means sharp, and self-interested.

Before you commit

Choose with care利 has an edge. It means sharp as well as profitable, and 自私自利 means selfish and self-serving. A lone 利 can read as somebody out for themselves.

JapaneseJapanese uses 利 the same way in 利益 and 便利, so the glyph reads naturally in both languages.

At small sizesSeven strokes - grain on the left, standing knife on the right. Open, balanced and safe at any size.

Meaning

Profit, benefit, advantage; also sharp.

The character in 利潤 profit, 利息 interest and 鋒利 sharp.

Other characters for “profit”

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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