迎
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welcome
ㄧㄥˊ yíng
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.
Receiving someone gladly. In Chinese this is a verb, to greet, rather than a standing word you can put on a sign alone.
Before you commit
Choose with care迎 alone means to go and meet someone, not you are welcome here. Without 歡 in front of it the warmth is missing, and the character reads as a plain verb.
At small sizesEight strokes with a walking radical along the bottom left. The long base sweep wants space but suits a curved placement.
Cultural note迎春接福, welcome the spring and receive good fortune, is a standard New Year couplet phrase. 迎 is strongly associated with those red door papers.
Meaning
To greet, to receive, to go out to meet someone.
The character inside every word about welcoming a guest.
Other characters for “welcome”
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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