wedding blessing

囍

ㄒㄧˇ xǐ

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

The good wishes said to a couple. Chinese does this in set phrases rather than in single characters.

Before you commit

Choose with careThere is no single character meaning wedding blessing. 囍 is the symbol, but it belongs on a door or a gift, and it looks odd used as a personal statement.

Cultural noteThe usual written blessings are 百年好合, a hundred years of harmony, and 永結同心, hearts joined forever. Both are four characters and belong on a scroll rather than on skin.

At small sizes囍 is twenty-four strokes in a broad square. 喜 alone is twelve and much better behaved if you want something wearable.

Meaning

Double happiness; the standing wedding symbol.

The one written mark that means wedding blessing on sight.

Other characters for “wedding blessing”

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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