疑
Symbols Mind
uncertainty
ㄧˊ yí
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.
Not knowing which way things stand. Chinese leans on doubt and hesitation rather than on a noun for uncertainty.
Before you commit
Choose with care疑 carries suspicion as well as doubt. 疑心 is a suspicious mind and 嫌疑 is criminal suspicion, so it is not a neutral word.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read gi or utagau, to doubt or suspect. The suspicious edge is present there too.
At small sizesFourteen strokes with an awkward split down the middle. It needs space or the two halves run together.
Meaning
Doubt; to doubt, to suspect, to be unsure.
The core character for not being sure, from mild doubt to outright suspicion.
Other characters for “uncertainty”
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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