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Symbols Memory
lost love
思
ㄒㄧㄤ ㄙ xiāng sī
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 person you loved and no longer have. Chinese splits this by cause - a parting, a break-up, or a death.
Before you commit
Choose with care相思 says longing, not loss. It suits a love out of reach - separated, unreturned or dead - but it does not say the relationship ended.
At small sizesEighteen strokes over two open, even characters. This pair scales down better than most two-character options here.
Cultural note紅豆, red beans, are the token of 相思, from a short Tang poem by Wang Wei that almost every Chinese reader knows by heart.
Meaning
Longing for someone absent; lovesickness.
The classical word for missing a love you cannot reach.
Other characters for “lost love”
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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