憫
Symbols Emotions
sympathy
ㄇㄧㄣˇ mǐn
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.
Feeling with someone in their trouble, and wanting it eased.
Before you commit
Choose with care憫 looks slightly downward — closer to pity than to fellow-feeling. If you mean standing alongside someone, 同情 is the honest choice.
Pairs well with憐 + 憫 gives 憐憫, which reads immediately, though it too tilts toward pity.
At small sizes15 strokes with a narrow heart radical beside a gate. The interior of the gate closes up quickly at small scale.
Meaning
To feel for those who suffer.
Literary and grave; sympathy from someone who could help.
Other characters for “sympathy”
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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