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I'm helping a friend making a vertical neon sign for an installation with the
word hikikomori. As I don't know anything about Japanese I just googled the
translation, but can't understand how to order the characters. Should I just
take 引き籠もり and then place one character on each line as read from top to
bottom like:

引

き

籠

も

り

Or should the order be the other way around when writing vertically? Languages
are just not my thing...
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Making a sign one column vertically. Don't know anything about Japanese
It should like this:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/W9V1S.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/W9V1S.png)

  * You can just place each character from top to bottom, without rotating. For details, please see [Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical_writing_in_East_Asian_scripts)
  * The word _hikikomori_ is usually written as ひきこもり, in all-[hiragana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana#Table_of_hiragana). Avoid complicated kanji 引 and 籠. The latter is probably impossible to reproduce with a neon tube, anyway.
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