riches

財

ㄘㄞˊ cái

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

Money and property. The plain Chinese character for it is blunt, and worn bare it reads as cash rather than as fortune.

Before you commit

Choose with care財 names money directly. Alone it is about as subtle as the word cash, and many Chinese readers would find a bare 財 blunt rather than aspirational.

At small sizesTen strokes with the shell radical on the left, the old sign for money. Clean and legible at small sizes.

Cultural note恭喜發財, wishing you wealth, is the standard New Year greeting and 財神 the God of Wealth is a household figure. Wealth talk here is open and unembarrassed.

Meaning

Wealth, money, property, assets.

The material stuff - the character in 財產 property and 財務 finance.

Other characters for “riches”

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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