輪
Symbols Spirit
reincarnation
迴
ㄌㄨㄣˊ ㄏㄨㄟˊ lún huí
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.
Being born again into another life, over and over. In Chinese this is a Buddhist idea with a turning wheel at the centre of it.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means reincarnation. 輪 alone is a wheel or a tyre and 迴 alone is a bend in a road; only the pair carries the meaning.
JapaneseJapanese writes it 輪廻, with a different second character, so this spelling reads as Chinese.
At small sizesFifteen strokes then nine, with the walking radical sweeping under the second. Keep that sweep long or the pair looks cramped.
Meaning
The cycle of rebirth; the wheel of birth and death turning again.
The exact Buddhist term, and one every Chinese reader knows.
Other characters for “reincarnation”
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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