talent

才

ㄘㄞˊ cái

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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Natural ability. Chinese treats it as something a person is issued with at birth rather than something built up later.

Before you commit

Choose with care才 is also an extremely common grammatical word meaning only then or not until. Alone it can read as an ordinary particle rather than as talent.

Pairs well with才華 for evident brilliance, 才能 for practical ability. Both are far clearer than 才 standing by itself.

At small sizesThree strokes. About as robust as a Chinese character gets - it survives any size and any curve.

Meaning

Talent, ability; also a person of ability.

Compact and old, and present in every word about capability.

Other characters for “talent”

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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