慰
Symbols Emotions
consolation
ㄨㄟˋ wèi
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.
The act of easing someone's grief — comfort given to a person who is hurting, not a mood they feel on their own.
Before you commit
Choose with care慰 is something you do for another person. It does not mean feeling comforted yourself, and it almost never stands alone in speech — 安慰 or 慰藉 is what people say.
JapaneseSame kanji, read nagusame. A Japanese reader takes it as consolation too, so the glyph alone will not read as specifically Chinese.
At small sizes15 strokes with a crowded upper half over 心. It muddies quickly on small or curved placements.
Meaning
To comfort, to console; to set a troubled mind at ease.
The core character inside 安慰, the everyday verb for comforting someone.
Other characters for “consolation”
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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