question

問

ㄨㄣˋ wèn

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

Putting a question, and the doubt sitting behind it. Chinese keeps the asking and the thing asked in different characters.

Before you commit

Choose with care問 is a verb first. Standing alone it reads as to ask rather than as a question, and 問題 more often means problem than question.

JapaneseShared with Japanese, read mon or to-u, and immediately legible there in compounds like 質問.

At small sizesEleven strokes, a mouth inside a gate. The frame keeps it square and it holds up well small.

Meaning

To ask, to enquire; to put a question to someone.

The plain everyday verb, from asking directions to questioning a witness.

Other characters for “question”

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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