懷
Symbols Memory
always remembered
ㄏㄨㄞˊ huái
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.
Never dropping out of the minds of the living. Chinese says this with a character meaning to carry in the chest.
Before you commit
Choose with care懷 is broad. It also means the bosom, and 懷孕 is to be pregnant. Alone it says holding something close without saying what.
Pairs well with永懷 for memorial use, 懷念 for missing someone, 緬懷 for the formal register of honouring the departed.
At small sizesNineteen strokes, very dense on the right. This needs real size on skin; small, it collapses into a dark block.
Meaning
To hold in the heart; to cherish, to miss; the bosom.
Remembering as carrying someone with you rather than recalling them.
Other characters for “always remembered”
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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