學
Symbols Mind
school
ㄒㄩㄝˊ xué
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.
Where learning happens. The character for learning itself is usually the one people actually want.
Before you commit
Choose with care學 is about learning, not about buildings. Alone it reads as study or a field of knowledge, which is usually the better meaning anyway.
JapaneseJapanese writes 学. The traditional 學 is recognised there but looks Chinese or archaic, and 塾 is the ordinary Japanese word for a cram school.
At small sizesSixteen strokes with a busy crown over 子. The top crowds badly when small - allow real size.
Meaning
To learn, to study; learning, a field of study, a school.
One character for learning, for a discipline, and for the place you do it.
Other characters for “school”
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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