trade

貿

易

ㄇㄠˋ ㄧˋ mào yì

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

Exchanging goods for money or for other goods, especially between places. Chinese builds this from two characters and rarely uses either alone.

Before you commit

Choose with careNeither character stands comfortably alone. 貿 by itself looks unfinished, and 易 alone will be read as easy or as change before it is read as trade.

Japanese貿易 is written identically in Japanese and read boueki, with the same meaning. It will not mark itself as Chinese.

At small sizesAround twenty strokes across two characters. 貿 stacks a dense top on the shell radical and needs generous spacing.

Meaning

Trade, commerce between parties or countries.

The standard modern word, from street markets to trade treaties.

Other characters for “trade”

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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