重
Symbols Life
starting over
來
ㄓㄨㄥˋ ㄌㄞˊ zhòng lái
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.
Wiping the slate and beginning again. Chinese states this as doing it again from the top rather than as a single noun.
Before you commit
Choose with care重 has two readings: chong, again, and zhong, heavy. Written alone it is ambiguous, and only the 來 fixes the again reading.
Cultural note更生 is the term Taiwan uses for offender rehabilitation, so it can read as a social-services word rather than a personal one.
At small sizesSeventeen strokes over two characters. 重 is a stack of horizontal bars that fills in when inked small — allow generous size.
Meaning
To start over; to do it again from the beginning.
The plain spoken phrase — what you say when you want another run at it.
Other characters for “starting over”
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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