Number Symbol Translation

Hi all,
I'm putting a custom paint job on my Suzuki Katana sportbike and want to replace the original engine size decal, 600, with the Japanese symbol representation of the same number.

I did some research and believe I need to use the roku followed by hyaku of the Sino-Japanese numbers since this is essentially a counting of the number of cubic centimeters of the motor.

I want to make sure I do this right so I don't insult the Japanese language,... or look stupid rolling down the road.

And I also need to find larger images of the appropriate symbols. The best I can find online are a little too small. If anyone can direct me to a resource or provide me with images of the symbols that are about 2 inches by 2 inches I would sincerely appreciate it.

Thanks

LeakyMemory said:

Hi all,
And I also need to find larger images of the appropriate symbols. The best I can find online are a little too small. If anyone can direct me to a resource or provide me with images of the symbols that are about 2 inches by 2 inches I would sincerely appreciate it.

Thanks

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I'm no expert on exactly which kanji you need, but you can get nice-looking kanji images of any size by directly converting a kanji text into an image. There are a ton of ways to do that, though all of them are more round-about than you'd think they would need to be. You could, for example, type the text into an image editor like Photoshop/GIMP/Paint and save the image, or type it into Word then take a screenshot.

And yeah, you'll have to figure which font your chosen kanji look the best in.

I have Gimp 2.6.
I see a number of fonts that look like Kanji, but I'm not sure which one is correct since their names are written in the same font.

Can you provide any guidance on this?
Thanks

You are looking Chinese hanzi fonts, not Japanese kanji ones.
Choose the one you like in the pdf file I uploaded.

View attachment 600.pdf

Toritoribe,

Thanks. You're awesome. This is perfect! And with options. Couldn't have asked for anything more.