失
Symbols Memory
loss
ㄕ shī
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.
Something that was yours and is not any more. Chinese separates losing a thing from losing a person.
Before you commit
Choose with care失 is everyday and mildly negative - the 失 of failure, of a mistake, of losing your temper. On its own it carries no grief.
Pairs well with失去 for the act of losing, 喪失 for losing something abstract like hearing or hope. For losing a person, Chinese uses 喪.
At small sizesFive strokes, wide and open. Very safe small and on curves - one of the simplest characters in this set.
Meaning
To lose; to miss; to fail at something.
The plain losing character - a key, a chance, a job, your temper.
Other characters for “loss”
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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