remorse

悔

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.

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Regret with guilt inside it — being sorry for the harm you did, not just for how things turned out.

Before you commit

Choose with care悔 is neutral about depth — it covers regretting a purchase as easily as regretting a life. 悔恨 is the one that reads as remorse.

At small sizes10 strokes, evenly split left and right. One of the more legible characters in this group.

Cultural note懺 comes from 懺悔, Buddhist confession, and reads as religious. Choose it only if that association is wanted.

Meaning

To repent; to be sorry for what you did.

The core character; remorse is its natural reading when a person is the cause.

Other characters for “remorse”

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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