節
Symbols Beauty
rhythm
奏
ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄗㄡˋ jié zòu
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 beat underneath music or movement. The Chinese word joins the joint of a bamboo stem with playing music.
Before you commit
Choose with care律 alone reads as law long before it reads as rhythm. 法律 is law and 紀律 is discipline, so it will not be taken as a musical word by itself.
Pairs well with節奏 for rhythm, 律動 for a rhythmic pulse, 拍子 for the beat you count.
At small sizesTwenty-two strokes across the pair, 節 dense under a bamboo top. Give it room or the top closes up.
Meaning
Rhythm; the pace of music, of speech or of work.
The ordinary word, used of drumming and of the pace of daily life alike.
Other characters for “rhythm”
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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