心
Symbols Emotions
heartbreak
碎
ㄒㄧㄣ ㄙㄨㄟˋ xīn suì
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.
The break itself — what the loss of a love does to a person.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means heartbreak. 心碎 is the modern plain phrase; 斷腸 is vivid but literally names the intestines, which surprises people.
At small sizes心 is only 4 strokes against 碎 at 13. The pair looks unbalanced in a column unless you weight the linework.
Cultural noteChinese classically locates violent grief in the gut, not the heart — 肝腸寸斷, liver and guts cut to inches, is the full idiom.
Meaning
Heartbroken; the heart in pieces.
Modern, plain, and immediately understood.
Other characters for “heartbreak”
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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