support

扶

ㄈㄨˊ fú

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.

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Holding something or someone up. Chinese separates the physical steadying of a person from backing a cause or an idea.

Before you commit

Choose with care扶 is a physical act, not a sentiment. If you mean standing behind someone, that is 支持. If you mean the hand that steadies a person who is faltering, 扶 is exactly right.

Pairs well with相扶, supporting each other, and 扶持, to help and sustain. 相互扶持 is what long marriages are described as in Chinese.

At small sizesSeven strokes with the hand radical on the left. Simple, open and reliable at small sizes or on a curve.

Meaning

To steady someone by the arm; to help a person up or along.

Concrete and human - the hand under the elbow of an elder.

Other characters for “support”

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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