迷
Symbols Mind
confusion
ㄇㄧˊ mí
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.
Being unable to make sense of things. Chinese pictures it as losing your way on the road.
Before you commit
Choose with care迷 also means a fan or enthusiast in modern Chinese - 影迷 is a film buff. Alone it can read as devoted rather than lost.
JapaneseShared with Japanese, read mei or mayou, to get lost or waver. Note that 迷惑 in Japanese means trouble caused to other people.
At small sizesTen strokes with the walking radical sweeping underneath. Light, open, and it suits a curved placement.
Meaning
Lost, bewildered, unable to find the way; also enchanted by something.
The character for losing your way, and for being held spellbound.
Other characters for “confusion”
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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