reward

賞

ㄕㄤˇ shǎng

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 comes back to you for what you did. Chinese separates a reward given by someone from a return the world pays out.

Before you commit

Choose with care賞 far more often means to appreciate or enjoy - 欣賞 to admire, 賞花 to go and look at blossom. A reader may take it as savouring rather than as reward.

Pairs well with獎賞 for a prize, 賞識 for recognising someone's worth. 善有善報, good is repaid with good, is the familiar phrase behind 報.

At small sizesFifteen strokes with the shell radical carrying the weight at the base. Top-heavy and prone to filling in when small.

Meaning

To reward or bestow; a reward given from above.

The reward a superior grants, and the counterpart of punishment.

Other characters for “reward”

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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