悔
Symbols Emotions
regret
ㄏㄨㄟˇ huǐ
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.
Wishing things had gone otherwise — from mild disappointment at an outcome to lasting self-reproach.
Before you commit
Choose with care悔 leans toward repenting a fault of your own. If you mean regret about how life fell out, 憾 is far closer and much less confessional.
Pairs well with無悔 (no regrets) is the phrase people usually actually want — 悔 alone says the opposite of that.
At small sizes10 strokes with a clean heart radical on the left. Holds up well small.
Meaning
To regret; to repent of what you did.
Points at your own choice, not at bad luck.
Other characters for “regret”
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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