教
Symbols Mind
teaching
ㄐㄧㄠˋ jiào
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.
Passing on what you know. Chinese separates instructing from the patient, repeated guidance of a real teacher.
Before you commit
Choose with care教 also means religion. 教徒 is a believer and 傳教 is missionary work, so the character carries a doctrinal sense as well as a schoolroom one.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read kyou or oshieru, with the same pairing of teaching and religion.
At small sizesEleven strokes, a tapping-stick radical on the right. Balanced, and it holds together well small.
Meaning
To teach, to instruct; also a religion or doctrine.
The everyday verb for teaching, and the 教 of 宗教, religion.
Other characters for “teaching”
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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