樂
Symbols Emotions
spirit of joy
ㄌㄜˋ lè
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.
Happiness as a way of being rather than a good afternoon — the disposition to delight.
Before you commit
Choose with care樂 is read yue as well as le, and then it means music. A Chinese reader sees both meanings at once; that is a bonus for musicians and an ambiguity for everyone else.
Pairs well with喜樂 reads as sustained gladness and is the standard word in Chinese Bibles; 快樂 is ordinary everyday happiness.
At small sizes15 strokes in traditional form, wide and symmetrical. It needs width more than height.
Meaning
Joy, gladness; to take pleasure in something.
The central Chinese character for joy, from 快樂 to 樂觀.
Other characters for “spirit of joy”
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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