財
Symbols Life
wealth
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.
Script
Characters
Same in both
Layout
Rubbing mode: white on black, as a stone rubbing. The download is unaffected.
Money and material abundance. Chinese distinguishes the wealth you hold from the state of being well-off.
Before you commit
Choose with care財 is blunt and commercial. Chinese readers associate it with business, gambling and the god of wealth, not with a quiet inner richness.
Pairs well with發財, to get rich, is the New Year greeting everyone knows. Wearing 財 alone reads a little like advertising an appetite for money.
At small sizesTen strokes, clean left-right split. Scales down well and stays readable on curved placements.
Meaning
Wealth, money, property, assets.
The concrete stuff - what is counted, earned and lost.
Other characters for “wealth”
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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