團
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reunion of family
圓
ㄊㄨㄢˊ ㄩㄢˊ tuán yuán
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.
The whole family back under one roof. Chinese ties this to roundness and completeness, and to two specific festivals.
Before you commit
Choose with care團圓 is family-specific. It is not used of a school reunion or of two friends meeting again, and using it that way reads oddly.
At small sizesFourteen strokes plus thirteen, both fully enclosed by a box. Enclosed characters fill in fast, so allow generous size.
Cultural noteMid-Autumn is the 團圓 festival, its round moon and round mooncakes both standing for the complete family, and the New Year's Eve meal is the 團圓飯. The word is loaded with those two nights.
Meaning
Family reunion; everyone together and the circle complete.
The exact word, and one of the warmest in the language.
Other characters for “reunion of family”
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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