Japanese Vertical Text - Shenmue

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Hi all. i want to get a vertical tattoo of the word Shenmue in japanese and i want it vertical down my spine. is there anyone who can show me how its wrote. is this correct? like does it make sense if you were japanese?












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thanks
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The last character in the word Shenmue would need to be vertical rather than horizontal – so something like





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Hope this helps

Edit: aligned centrally
 
The last character in the word Shenmue would need to be vertical rather than horizontal – so something like





|​

Hope this helps

Edit: aligned centrally
awesome. glad i asked! that would of been a big mistake. just out of interest why would that last letter change?

thanks
 
awesome. glad i asked! that would of been a big mistake. just out of interest why would that last letter change?

thanks
Because the point is to show the final sound (“-mue”) is longer, so it’s a line that goes along the direction of reading. So if you’re writing horizontally it’s horizontal, and if you’re writing vertically it’s vertical.
 
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