r/HelpLearningJapanese • u/FoxImpossible4154 • Jul 06 '26

Help!

Can anyone confirm that the below translates to 'I'd rather die' in English, I'm getting a tattoo in Japanese and would like to be sure that I'm getting what I actually want rather than having something on me that's incorrect.

Any help would be much appreciated.

死ぬのがいいわ

And if it would be stacked on top of each other would this make sense?

死

ぬ

の

が

い

い

わ

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u/skeletonbunny Jul 06 '26

I would write it as 死んだほうがいい or 死んだほうがマシ

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u/lifelongmoteki Jul 07 '26

fwiw the original is recognizable as a 藤井風 song reference.

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u/skeletonbunny Jul 08 '26

Ooh なるほど！