焦
Symbols Emotions
anxiety
慮
ㄐㄧㄠ ㄌㄩˋ jiāo lǜ
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.
Anxiety in the modern sense — restless, anticipatory worry with no single object.
Before you commit
Choose with careNo single character means anxiety. 焦 alone means scorched and 慮 alone means to consider — only the pair reads correctly.
At small sizes焦慮 is 12 and 15 strokes, both dense and horizontally banded. This one needs real size to stay readable.
Cultural note焦慮 is the clinical term a doctor would use, which makes it plain and modern rather than poetic.
Meaning
Anxiety; anxious, on edge.
The standard term, used clinically and in ordinary speech alike.
Other characters for “anxiety”
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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