Vertical Text Converter

Display text in traditional vertical layout — right-to-left with punctuation rotation

Vertical Text Converter (竖排文字) — Create Traditional East Asian Vertical Layout with Right-to-Left Columns, Punctuation Rotation, and Multiple Export Formats

  1. Type or paste your text into the input area — the tool supports Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and any CJK-compatible text. Vertical writing (縦書き, tategaki in Japanese; 竖排, shùpái in Chinese) is the traditional text direction in East Asian cultures, where characters flow from top to bottom and columns progress from right to left. This layout was the standard for Chinese texts for over 3,000 years — from oracle bone inscriptions through bamboo scrolls to printed books — and remains widely used today in Japanese novels, manga, newspapers, and traditional Chinese calligraphy and poetry.
  2. Configure the vertical layout settings: Text Direction — choose Right-to-Left (traditional, columns flow right-to-left as in classical Chinese texts and modern Japanese books) or Left-to-Right (modern alternative, sometimes used in Mongolian script contexts). Rotate Punctuation — when enabled, punctuation marks like commas, periods, brackets, and quotation marks are automatically rotated to their correct vertical orientation (e.g., a horizontal period 。rotates 90° to sit properly in the vertical flow). This is essential for authentic CJK typography — unrotated punctuation in vertical text immediately looks amateurish to native readers. The tool uses CSS writing-mode: vertical-rl or vertical-lr along with text-orientation properties that are supported in all modern browsers.
  3. Review the live preview showing your text rendered in vertical layout with the selected settings. Export your result in three formats: Copy as HTML — copies the text wrapped in a <div> with inline CSS for vertical writing mode, ready to paste into web pages, blogs, or newsletters; Copy as Plain Text — copies the text with each character separated by newlines, preserving the vertical reading order for pasting into documents or text editors; Download as Image — renders the vertical text onto a Canvas and exports as a PNG image, perfect for social media graphics, presentation slides, or sharing the styled vertical layout directly. All processing is client-side — your text never leaves your browser.

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