saving

儲

ㄔㄨˇ chǔ

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

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Layout

Setting money or supplies aside instead of spending them. Chinese separates the act of storing up from the thrift that makes it possible.

Before you commit

Choose with care儲 also means an heir apparent, as in 儲君, the crown prince held in reserve for the throne. Educated readers meet that sense often enough to think of it.

Pairs well with儲蓄 for plain savings, 積儲 for a store built up slowly. 勤儉, diligent and thrifty, is the admired phrase if you mean the character trait.

At small sizesSeventeen strokes in a narrow left-right split. The right side crowds badly when inked small, so give it space.

Meaning

To store up, to lay aside, to keep in reserve.

The character for holding something back against a future need.

Other characters for “saving”

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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