Vertical and Horizontal Hangul for Fighter/Warrior (전사)

Question

I just wanted to check. I want to get 전사 tattooed down my calf. Would it mean the same thing if it looked like:

전

사

I'm going for the first character over the second.

Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

Excerpted from Wikipedia Hangul Block Shape, note the following rules.

All or most of these rules are broken by this fighter's example tattoo a @LifeOnTheMoon answer:

• Do not stretch initial consonant vertically, but leave white space below if no lower vowel and/or no final consonant. (Note the ㅈ is stretched 95% or greater to the bottom without enough white space to even put in the final morpho-syllabic block forcing the batchim to barely make it in)
• Do not stretch right-hand vowel vertically, but leave white space below if no final consonant. (Often the right-hand vowel extends farther down than the left-hand consonant, like a descender in European typography) (the ㅓ is the same height as the ㅈ disregarding proper white spacing/padding)
• Do not stretch final consonant horizontally, but leave white space to its left. (obviously not only is there no white space to the left of the final consonant (batchim), it is offset out to the left, outside of the morpho-syllabic block!)
• Do not stretch or pad each block to a fixed width, but allow kerning (variable width) where syllable blocks with no right-hand vowel and no double final consonant can be narrower than blocks that do have a right-hand vowel or double final consonant. (perhaps it's debatable if they broke this rule, however, the spacing/padding/layout inside the morpho-syllabic block is childish.)

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Oh no! But I want that tattoo - can you show me what it is supposed to look like?

I don't have calligraphy brushes, but i've photoshopped together the horizontal and vertical versions in a form of 흘림체:

Horizontal

Vertical

Answer 2

it's okay. but just one more thing.

Most Koreans do not write 'ㄴ' long side - to - side.