絕
Symbols Emotions
despair
望
ㄐㄩㄝˊ ㄨㄤˋ jué wàng
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.
Hope cut off entirely — not sadness, but the conclusion that there is no way out.
Before you commit
Choose with care絕 alone means to cut off or absolutely, not despair, and shows up in praise words like 絕美. Only the pair 絕望 carries the meaning.
At small sizes12 plus 11 strokes, both dense. This pair does not shrink well.
Cultural noteThis is a stark word in Chinese, closer to clinical hopelessness than to a mood. Readers will take it literally and may read it as a mental-health statement.
Meaning
Despair; hope severed.
The plain, unambiguous word, and the one readers expect.
Other characters for “despair”
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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