success in business

興

隆

ㄒㄧㄥㄌㄨㄥˊ xīng lóng

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

A trade that is doing well. Chinese has a fixed shop-front phrase for this, and it is the one to use.

Before you commit

Choose with care興隆 is specifically commercial. It reads as a shop-opening wish rather than as personal success - for that, 成功 is the word.

At small sizesTwenty-eight strokes over two busy characters. 興 is symmetrical but crowded and closes up quickly when small.

Cultural note生意興隆 hangs in doorways across the Chinese-speaking world, often beside 財源廣進. The phrasing is fixed and shortening it looks odd.

Meaning

Thriving, flourishing, booming - said of a business.

From 生意興隆, the standard wish written on shop banners.

Other characters for “success in business”

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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