無
Symbols Protection
merciless
情
ㄨˊ ㄑㄧㄥˊ wú qíng
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.
Showing no pity. Chinese says this as being without feeling, and there is no single character that carries the whole idea cleanly.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means merciless. 殘 alone reads as damaged or leftover just as readily, and 酷 now reads as cool to most young people.
At small sizesTwo characters, 無 with four short legs at the base. Those legs fill in first; give the phrase room or it turns muddy.
Cultural note無情 appears constantly in classical poetry about time and fate rather than about people - the river is 無情, the years are 無情. That is the register it carries.
Meaning
Without feeling; merciless, unfeeling, also indifferent in love.
The standard phrase, and the one most readers meet first in poetry.
Other characters for “merciless”
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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