挫
Symbols Emotions
frustration
ㄘㄨㄛˋ cuò
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.
Being blocked — the effort goes in, the thing does not move, and the feeling has nowhere to go.
Before you commit
Choose with care挫折 is the setback itself, not the emotion. If you mean the feeling of being thwarted, Chinese reaches for 沮喪 or 悶 rather than 挫折.
Pairs well with屢敗屢戰 (defeated repeatedly, fighting on) is the phrase Chinese admires around frustration, and reads far better than naming the frustration.
At small sizes10 strokes, hand radical left. Balanced and safe at moderate sizes.
Meaning
To be checked, thwarted, set back.
The hand radical: an effort pushed back rather than a mood.
Other characters for “frustration”
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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