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Wingdings Translator

Turn "Hello World" into 🖗♏⚫⚫🞏 🕈🞏❒⚫♎, the same symbols the Wingdings font shows in Word. Translate to Wingdings, Wingdings 2 or Wingdings 3, copy and paste the result anywhere, or paste Wingdings to read it in English.

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Last updated: October 5, 2026 · Published: 2026-04-09 · Updated: 2026-10-05

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Wingdings symbols

🖗♏⚫⚫🞏 🕈🞏❒⚫♎

10 symbols · counts as 21 of 280 on X · Wingdings is case-sensitive, so A and a give different symbols

Your text in all 3 Wingdings fonts

Wingdings
🖗♏⚫⚫🞏 🕈🞏❒⚫♎
21 of 280 on X · Hands, faces, zodiac signs, office items and religious symbols.
Wingdings 2
🖠🙚③③⑥ 🛇⑥⑨③🙧
21 of 280 on X · Pens, pointing hands, check boxes, ampersands and circled numbers.
Wingdings 3
⮄🢫🡗🡗🡙 ⍽🡙△🡗🢪
21 of 280 on X · Almost all arrows and triangles, plus keyboard key symbols.

Many of these symbols joined Unicode in 2014 (version 7.0), so some phones and apps show them as boxes. In Word, you can type your text instead and set the font to Wingdings.

Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.

What is a Wingdings translator?

A Wingdings translator swaps every keyboard character for the symbol that Microsoft's Wingdings font draws in its place. "Hello World" becomes 🖗♏⚫⚫🞏 🕈🞏❒⚫♎ in Wingdings, 🖠🙚③③⑥ 🛇⑥⑨③🙧 in Wingdings 2 and ⮄🢫🡗🡗🡙 ⍽🡙△🡗🢪 in Wingdings 3. Paste the symbols back in and it gives you the English text.

Wingdings is not a language or a code. It is a set of symbol fonts from 1992, and in Word it only changes how normal letters look. This translator uses the matching Unicode characters instead, so your message keeps its symbols when you paste it into a chat, post or game.

How to translate text to Wingdings

1
Type your text
The Wingdings version updates as you type. Capitals, lowercase letters, numbers and punctuation each have their own symbol.
2
Pick a font
Choose Wingdings, Wingdings 2 or Wingdings 3, or compare all three in the list below the result.
3
Copy and paste
Press Copy Wingdings and paste it anywhere. To read a Wingdings message, switch to Wingdings to text and paste it.

Wingdings alphabet: capital letters

Every capital letter in all three fonts, with its Unicode code point. Capitals in Wingdings are mostly hands, faces, weather and religious symbols.

Letter	Wingdings	Wingdings 2	Wingdings 3
A	✌ U+270C	🖛 U+1F59B	⮑ U+2B91
B	🖏 U+1F58F	👈 U+1F448	⮒ U+2B92
C	👍 U+1F44D	👉 U+1F449	⮓ U+2B93
D	👎 U+1F44E	🖜 U+1F59C	⮀ U+2B80
E	☜ U+261C	🖝 U+1F59D	⮃ U+2B83
F	☞ U+261E	🖞 U+1F59E	⭾ U+2B7E
G	☝ U+261D	🖟 U+1F59F	⭿ U+2B7F
H	🖗 U+1F597	🖠 U+1F5A0	⮄ U+2B84
I	🖐 U+1F590	🖡 U+1F5A1	⮆ U+2B86
J	☺ U+263A	👆 U+1F446	⮅ U+2B85
K	😐 U+1F610	👇 U+1F447	⮇ U+2B87
L	☹ U+2639	🖢 U+1F5A2	⮏ U+2B8F
M	💣 U+1F4A3	🖣 U+1F5A3	⮍ U+2B8D
N	🕱 U+1F571	🖑 U+1F591	⮎ U+2B8E
O	🏳 U+1F3F3	🗴 U+1F5F4	⮌ U+2B8C
P	🏱 U+1F3F1	🗸 U+1F5F8	⭮ U+2B6E
Q	✈ U+2708	🗵 U+1F5F5	⭯ U+2B6F
R	☼ U+263C	☑ U+2611	⎋ U+238B
S	🌢 U+1F322	⮽ U+2BBD	⌤ U+2324
T	❄ U+2744	☒ U+2612	⌃ U+2303
U	🕆 U+1F546	⮾ U+2BBE	⌥ U+2325
V	✞ U+271E	⮿ U+2BBF	␣ U+2423
W	🕈 U+1F548	🛇 U+1F6C7	⍽ U+237D
X	✠ U+2720	⦸ U+29B8	⇪ U+21EA
Y	✡ U+2721	🙱 U+1F671	⮸ U+2BB8
Z	☪ U+262A	🙴 U+1F674	🢠 U+1F8A0

Wingdings alphabet: lowercase letters

Lowercase letters have different symbols from capitals. In Wingdings, a to i are the zodiac signs from Cancer to Pisces (Aries, Taurus and Gemini sit on ^, _ and `) and the rest are mostly shapes.

Letter	Wingdings	Wingdings 2	Wingdings 3
a	♋ U+264B	🙦 U+1F666	🢧 U+1F8A7
b	♌ U+264C	🙤 U+1F664	🢨 U+1F8A8
c	♍ U+264D	🙥 U+1F665	🢩 U+1F8A9
d	♎ U+264E	🙧 U+1F667	🢪 U+1F8AA
e	♏ U+264F	🙚 U+1F65A	🢫 U+1F8AB
f	♐ U+2650	🙘 U+1F658	🡐 U+1F850
g	♑ U+2651	🙙 U+1F659	🡒 U+1F852
h	♒ U+2652	🙛 U+1F65B	🡑 U+1F851
i	♓ U+2653	⓪ U+24EA	🡓 U+1F853
j	🙰 U+1F670	① U+2460	🡔 U+1F854
k	🙵 U+1F675	② U+2461	🡕 U+1F855
l	⚫ U+26AB	③ U+2462	🡗 U+1F857
m	🔾 U+1F53E	④ U+2463	🡖 U+1F856
n	◼ U+25FC	⑤ U+2464	🡘 U+1F858
o	🞏 U+1F78F	⑥ U+2465	🡙 U+1F859
p	🞐 U+1F790	⑦ U+2466	▲ U+25B2
q	❑ U+2751	⑧ U+2467	▼ U+25BC
r	❒ U+2752	⑨ U+2468	△ U+25B3
s	🞟 U+1F79F	⑩ U+2469	▽ U+25BD
t	⧫ U+29EB	⓿ U+24FF	◀ U+25C0
u	◆ U+25C6	❶ U+2776	▶ U+25B6
v	❖ U+2756	❷ U+2777	◁ U+25C1
w	🞙 U+1F799	❸ U+2778	▷ U+25B7
x	⌧ U+2327	❹ U+2779	◣ U+25E3
y	⮹ U+2BB9	❺ U+277A	◢ U+25E2
z	⌘ U+2318	❻ U+277B	◤ U+25E4

Wingdings numbers and punctuation

Numbers in Wingdings are folders, documents, an hourglass and computer parts, and punctuation has symbols too: a comma is a mailbox, 📪. Wingdings 2 puts its circled numbers 0 to 10 on the lowercase letters i to s.

Number	Wingdings	Wingdings 2	Wingdings 3
0	🗀 U+1F5C0	🗌 U+1F5CC	⭽ U+2B7D
1	🗁 U+1F5C1	🗍 U+1F5CD	⭤ U+2B64
2	🗎 U+1F5CE	📋 U+1F4CB	⭥ U+2B65
3	🗏 U+1F5CF	🗑 U+1F5D1	⭪ U+2B6A
4	🗐 U+1F5D0	🗔 U+1F5D4	⭬ U+2B6C
5	🗄 U+1F5C4	🖵 U+1F5B5	⭫ U+2B6B
6	⏳ U+23F3	🖶 U+1F5B6	⭭ U+2B6D
7	🖮 U+1F5AE	🖷 U+1F5B7	⭍ U+2B4D
8	🖰 U+1F5B0	🖸 U+1F5B8	⮠ U+2BA0
9	🖲 U+1F5B2	🖭 U+1F5AD	⮡ U+2BA1

Symbol	Wingdings	Wingdings 2	Wingdings 3
!	🖉 U+1F589	🖊 U+1F58A	⭠ U+2B60
"	✂ U+2702	🖋 U+1F58B	⭢ U+2B62
#	✁ U+2701	🖌 U+1F58C	⭡ U+2B61
$	👓 U+1F453	🖍 U+1F58D	⭣ U+2B63
%	🕭 U+1F56D	✄ U+2704	⭦ U+2B66
&	🕮 U+1F56E	✀ U+2700	⭧ U+2B67
'	🕯 U+1F56F	🕾 U+1F57E	⭩ U+2B69
(	🕿 U+1F57F	🕽 U+1F57D	⭨ U+2B68
)	✆ U+2706	🗅 U+1F5C5	⭰ U+2B70
*	🖂 U+1F582	🗆 U+1F5C6	⭲ U+2B72
+	🖃 U+1F583	🗇 U+1F5C7	⭱ U+2B71
,	📪 U+1F4EA	🗈 U+1F5C8	⭳ U+2B73
-	📫 U+1F4EB	🗉 U+1F5C9	⭶ U+2B76
.	📬 U+1F4EC	🗊 U+1F5CA	⭸ U+2B78
/	📭 U+1F4ED	🗋 U+1F5CB	⭻ U+2B7B
:	🖳 U+1F5B3	🖯 U+1F5AF	⮢ U+2BA2
;	🖴 U+1F5B4	🖱 U+1F5B1	⮣ U+2BA3
<	🖫 U+1F5AB	🖒 U+1F592	⮤ U+2BA4
=	🖬 U+1F5AC	🖓 U+1F593	⮥ U+2BA5
>	✇ U+2707	🖘 U+1F598	⮦ U+2BA6
?	✍ U+270D	🖙 U+1F599	⮧ U+2BA7
@	🖎 U+1F58E	🖚 U+1F59A	⮐ U+2B90
[	☯ U+262F	🙲 U+1F672	🢡 U+1F8A1
\	🕉 U+1F549	🙳 U+1F673	🢢 U+1F8A2
]	☸ U+2638	‽ U+203D	🢣 U+1F8A3
^	♈ U+2648	🙹 U+1F679	🢤 U+1F8A4
_	♉ U+2649	🙺 U+1F67A	🢥 U+1F8A5
`	♊ U+264A	🙻 U+1F67B	🢦 U+1F8A6
{	🏵 U+1F3F5	❼ U+277C	◥ U+25E5
\|	🏶 U+1F3F6	❽ U+277D	🞀 U+1F780
}	🙶 U+1F676	❾ U+277E	🞂 U+1F782
~	🙷 U+1F677	❿ U+277F	🞁 U+1F781

Common phrases in Wingdings

English	Wingdings
Hello World	🖗♏⚫⚫🞏 🕈🞏❒⚫♎
I love you	🖐 ⚫🞏❖♏ ⮹🞏◆
Yes	✡♏🞟
No	🕱🞏
OK	🏳😐
Help	🖗♏⚫🞐
Thank you	❄♒♋◼🙵 ⮹🞏◆
Good luck	☝🞏🞏♎ ⚫◆♍🙵

How to type Wingdings in Word

Microsoft Office on Windows and Mac usually includes all three Wingdings fonts, so this works in Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Type your message normally, then select it.
Open the font list on the Home tab and choose Wingdings, Wingdings 2 or Wingdings 3.
To add a single symbol, go to Insert, then Symbol, then More Symbols, and pick a Wingdings font.
To share the message outside Word, type it into this translator instead, because the font does not travel with copied text.

Word stores your text as ordinary letters with the Wingdings font applied. Paste it into a text message or a website without that font, and the letters come back. Unicode symbols from this translator don't have that problem.

Wingdings vs Wingdings 2 vs Wingdings 3

Font	What's in it	"Hello World"	Symbols above U+FFFF
Wingdings	Hands, faces, zodiac signs, office items and religious symbols.	🖗♏⚫⚫🞏 🕈🞏❒⚫♎	51 of 94
Wingdings 2	Pens, pointing hands, check boxes, ampersands and circled numbers.	🖠🙚③③⑥ 🛇⑥⑨③🙧	63 of 94
Wingdings 3	Almost all arrows and triangles, plus keyboard key symbols.	⮄🢫🡗🡗🡙 ⍽🡙△🡗🢪	25 of 94

Symbols above U+FFFFsit outside Unicode's original range and take two code units in UTF-16. Many Wingdings symbols in all three fonts, including most of the Wingdings 3 arrows, were added in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, so older devices may show some of them as boxes.

Character counts on X

Version	Text	Characters you see	X count
Plain text	Hello World	11	11
Wingdings	🖗♏⚫⚫🞏 🕈🞏❒⚫♎	11	21
Wingdings 2	🖠🙚③③⑥ 🛇⑥⑨③🙧	11	21
Wingdings 3	⮄🢫🡗🡗🡙 ⍽🡙△🡗🢪	11	21

History of Wingdings

Wingdings began as three symbol fonts by type designers Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. Microsoft renamed them to go with Windows.

Date	What happened
1990–1991	Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes design Lucida Icons, Lucida Arrows and Lucida Stars to match their Lucida typefaces.
1990–1992	Microsoft licenses the fonts for Windows 3.1 test releases, then buys them, picks symbols from all three and combines them into one font named Wingdings.
April 1992	Windows 3.1 ships with Wingdings. The remaining symbols follow in a Microsoft font pack as Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3.
1992	Days after the Windows 3.1 release, people notice what NYC looks like in Wingdings.
1993	The font's design and symbol order receive U.S. Design Patent D341848.
1997	Microsoft releases Webdings, where NYC deliberately reads as an eye, a heart and a city skyline.
September 2001	A hoax email claims Q33 NY was a 9/11 flight number with a hidden Wingdings message.
2007	The design patent expires.
June 2014	Unicode 7.0 adds hundreds of Wingdings and Webdings symbols, so every Wingdings character gets a Unicode equivalent.
2015	Undertale introduces W. D. Gaster, whose dialogue is written in Wingdings.
April 2024	The SNL sketch "Papyrus 2" reveals Ryan Gosling's character as Steven Wingdings, son of the font's fictional creator.

NYC and Q33 NY in Wingdings

Typing NYC in Wingdings gives 🕱✡👍: a skull and crossbones, a Star of David and a thumbs up. When this surfaced in 1992, some read it as an antisemitic message. Microsoft said the symbol order was a coincidence, and when it made Webdings in 1997, its designers made sure NYC showed an eye, a heart and a skyline instead.

After September 11, 2001, an email claimed that Q33 NY was the flight number of the first plane to hit the World Trade Center, and that in Wingdings it shows ✈🗏🗏 🕱✡. It was a hoax: the planes were American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, and the two "towers" are document icons.

Wingdings in games and pop culture

Undertale (2015) made Wingdings famous with a new generation. The hidden scientist W. D. Gaster, whose initials fans read as Wing Ding, speaks in the font, and fans translate his lines with Wingdings decoders.

In April 2024, the Saturday Night Live sketch "Papyrus 2" revealed that Ryan Gosling's font-obsessed character is Steven Wingdings, son of the font's fictional creator. The closing card hid a message in Wingdings.

Translate Wingdings to English

Wingdings to text reads all three fonts, even mixed in one message, ignores the invisible style characters some apps add, and leaves anything it doesn't recognize as it is.

👎♏♍🞏♎♏ 🔾♏

Decode me

Wingdings, Braille, Morse or runes?

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Wingdings Translator (this page)	Picture symbols from Microsoft's dingbat fonts.	🖗♏⚫⚫🞏
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Terms used on this page

Wingdings: A family of three Microsoft symbol fonts that show pictures instead of letters, released in 1992.
Dingbat font: A font made of symbols and ornaments rather than letters. Zapf Dingbats, Wingdings and Webdings are well-known examples.
Webdings: A separate Microsoft symbol font from 1997, made for web pages. It uses different symbols from Wingdings.
Symbol font encoding: How Wingdings works in Word: the document stores normal letters and the font draws pictures for them.
Unicode: The standard that gives every character, including Wingdings symbols, its own code so it looks the same in any app.
Code point: A character's number in Unicode, written like U+270C for ✌.
Variation selector: An invisible character that asks for a symbol's black-and-white text style (U+FE0E) or its color emoji style (U+FE0F).
Manicule: A pointing hand symbol. Wingdings and Wingdings 2 include more than a dozen of them.
Weighted character count: X's way of measuring post length, where most symbols and all emoji count as 2 characters.

Frequently asked questions

The Wingdings alphabet, decoding, Word, copy and paste, NYC, Undertale and the three Wingdings fonts.

What is a Wingdings translator?+

A tool that swaps each keyboard character for the symbol the Wingdings font shows in its place, so "Hello World" becomes 🖗♏⚫⚫🞏 🕈🞏❒⚫♎. It also works in reverse: paste Wingdings symbols and get the English text back.

Is this the real Wingdings alphabet?+

Yes. Each symbol is the Unicode character that matches the real font, for all 94 printable keyboard characters in Wingdings, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3. Type the same letters in Word, set the font to Wingdings, and you see the same pictures.

How do I translate Wingdings to English?+

Choose Wingdings to text and paste the symbols. The decoder reads all three Wingdings fonts at once and tells you which one the message uses: 👎♏♍🞏♎♏ 🔾♏ becomes "Decode me".

Why are capital and lowercase letters different in Wingdings?+

Wingdings gives every key its own symbol, so A is ✌ while a is ♋, the sign for Cancer. Capitals and lowercase letters never share a symbol, so the case you type changes the message.

How do I copy and paste Wingdings?+

Type your text, press Copy Wingdings, and paste it into a message, post or document. The symbols are standard Unicode characters, so they keep their look without the Wingdings font installed.

Why does Wingdings turn back into letters when I paste it from Word?+

In Word, Wingdings is only a font applied to normal letters. When you paste into an app that drops the font, the letters reappear. This translator gives you the actual Unicode symbols instead, so they stay symbols everywhere.

What is the difference between Wingdings, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3?+

Wingdings has hands, faces, zodiac signs, office items and religious symbols. Wingdings 2 has pens, pointing hands, check boxes, ampersands and circled numbers. Wingdings 3 is almost all arrows and triangles.

What does NYC mean in Wingdings?+

NYC in Wingdings is 🕱✡👍: a skull and crossbones, a Star of David and a thumbs up. People noticed it days after Windows 3.1 came out in 1992. Microsoft said the arrangement was a coincidence, and its later Webdings font deliberately turns NYC into an eye, a heart and a city skyline.

Why do some Wingdings symbols show as boxes or color emoji?+

Most Wingdings symbols joined Unicode in 2014, and some phones and apps still lack a font for them, so they show as boxes. Others, like the thumbs up, are also emoji and may appear in color. The black-and-white option asks for the plain version, but not every app honors it.

Do Wingdings symbols take up more characters on X?+

Usually. X counts most symbols as 2 characters, so "Hello World" is 11 characters in plain text but 21 in Wingdings. The translator shows the count against X's 280-character limit.

What language is Gaster's text in Undertale?+

W. D. Gaster, a hidden character in the 2015 game Undertale, is closely tied to Wingdings: fans read his initials as Wing Ding, and his hidden dialogue appears in the font. Players decode it with a Wingdings translator like this one.

Is the Wingdings translator free and private?+

Yes. It runs in your browser, needs no account, and sends nothing to a server.

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Last updated: October 5, 2026 · Published: 2026-04-09 · Updated: 2026-10-05

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Your text

Font

Ask for black-and-white symbols instead of color emoji

Wingdings symbols

🖗♏⚫⚫🞏 🕈🞏❒⚫♎

10 symbols · counts as 21 of 280 on X · Wingdings is case-sensitive, so A and a give different symbols

Your text in all 3 Wingdings fonts

Wingdings
🖗♏⚫⚫🞏 🕈🞏❒⚫♎
21 of 280 on X · Hands, faces, zodiac signs, office items and religious symbols.
Wingdings 2
🖠🙚③③⑥ 🛇⑥⑨③🙧
21 of 280 on X · Pens, pointing hands, check boxes, ampersands and circled numbers.
Wingdings 3
⮄🢫🡗🡗🡙 ⍽🡙△🡗🢪
21 of 280 on X · Almost all arrows and triangles, plus keyboard key symbols.

Many of these symbols joined Unicode in 2014 (version 7.0), so some phones and apps show them as boxes. In Word, you can type your text instead and set the font to Wingdings.

Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.

What is a Wingdings translator?

How to translate text to Wingdings

1
Type your text
The Wingdings version updates as you type. Capitals, lowercase letters, numbers and punctuation each have their own symbol.
2
Pick a font
Choose Wingdings, Wingdings 2 or Wingdings 3, or compare all three in the list below the result.
3
Copy and paste
Press Copy Wingdings and paste it anywhere. To read a Wingdings message, switch to Wingdings to text and paste it.

Wingdings alphabet: capital letters

Every capital letter in all three fonts, with its Unicode code point. Capitals in Wingdings are mostly hands, faces, weather and religious symbols.

Letter	Wingdings	Wingdings 2	Wingdings 3
A	✌ U+270C	🖛 U+1F59B	⮑ U+2B91
B	🖏 U+1F58F	👈 U+1F448	⮒ U+2B92
C	👍 U+1F44D	👉 U+1F449	⮓ U+2B93
D	👎 U+1F44E	🖜 U+1F59C	⮀ U+2B80
E	☜ U+261C	🖝 U+1F59D	⮃ U+2B83
F	☞ U+261E	🖞 U+1F59E	⭾ U+2B7E
G	☝ U+261D	🖟 U+1F59F	⭿ U+2B7F
H	🖗 U+1F597	🖠 U+1F5A0	⮄ U+2B84
I	🖐 U+1F590	🖡 U+1F5A1	⮆ U+2B86
J	☺ U+263A	👆 U+1F446	⮅ U+2B85
K	😐 U+1F610	👇 U+1F447	⮇ U+2B87
L	☹ U+2639	🖢 U+1F5A2	⮏ U+2B8F
M	💣 U+1F4A3	🖣 U+1F5A3	⮍ U+2B8D
N	🕱 U+1F571	🖑 U+1F591	⮎ U+2B8E
O	🏳 U+1F3F3	🗴 U+1F5F4	⮌ U+2B8C
P	🏱 U+1F3F1	🗸 U+1F5F8	⭮ U+2B6E
Q	✈ U+2708	🗵 U+1F5F5	⭯ U+2B6F
R	☼ U+263C	☑ U+2611	⎋ U+238B
S	🌢 U+1F322	⮽ U+2BBD	⌤ U+2324
T	❄ U+2744	☒ U+2612	⌃ U+2303
U	🕆 U+1F546	⮾ U+2BBE	⌥ U+2325
V	✞ U+271E	⮿ U+2BBF	␣ U+2423
W	🕈 U+1F548	🛇 U+1F6C7	⍽ U+237D
X	✠ U+2720	⦸ U+29B8	⇪ U+21EA
Y	✡ U+2721	🙱 U+1F671	⮸ U+2BB8
Z	☪ U+262A	🙴 U+1F674	🢠 U+1F8A0

Wingdings alphabet: lowercase letters

Lowercase letters have different symbols from capitals. In Wingdings, a to i are the zodiac signs from Cancer to Pisces (Aries, Taurus and Gemini sit on ^, _ and `) and the rest are mostly shapes.

Letter	Wingdings	Wingdings 2	Wingdings 3
a	♋ U+264B	🙦 U+1F666	🢧 U+1F8A7
b	♌ U+264C	🙤 U+1F664	🢨 U+1F8A8
c	♍ U+264D	🙥 U+1F665	🢩 U+1F8A9
d	♎ U+264E	🙧 U+1F667	🢪 U+1F8AA
e	♏ U+264F	🙚 U+1F65A	🢫 U+1F8AB
f	♐ U+2650	🙘 U+1F658	🡐 U+1F850
g	♑ U+2651	🙙 U+1F659	🡒 U+1F852
h	♒ U+2652	🙛 U+1F65B	🡑 U+1F851
i	♓ U+2653	⓪ U+24EA	🡓 U+1F853
j	🙰 U+1F670	① U+2460	🡔 U+1F854
k	🙵 U+1F675	② U+2461	🡕 U+1F855
l	⚫ U+26AB	③ U+2462	🡗 U+1F857
m	🔾 U+1F53E	④ U+2463	🡖 U+1F856
n	◼ U+25FC	⑤ U+2464	🡘 U+1F858
o	🞏 U+1F78F	⑥ U+2465	🡙 U+1F859
p	🞐 U+1F790	⑦ U+2466	▲ U+25B2
q	❑ U+2751	⑧ U+2467	▼ U+25BC
r	❒ U+2752	⑨ U+2468	△ U+25B3
s	🞟 U+1F79F	⑩ U+2469	▽ U+25BD
t	⧫ U+29EB	⓿ U+24FF	◀ U+25C0
u	◆ U+25C6	❶ U+2776	▶ U+25B6
v	❖ U+2756	❷ U+2777	◁ U+25C1
w	🞙 U+1F799	❸ U+2778	▷ U+25B7
x	⌧ U+2327	❹ U+2779	◣ U+25E3
y	⮹ U+2BB9	❺ U+277A	◢ U+25E2
z	⌘ U+2318	❻ U+277B	◤ U+25E4

Wingdings numbers and punctuation

Number	Wingdings	Wingdings 2	Wingdings 3
0	🗀 U+1F5C0	🗌 U+1F5CC	⭽ U+2B7D
1	🗁 U+1F5C1	🗍 U+1F5CD	⭤ U+2B64
2	🗎 U+1F5CE	📋 U+1F4CB	⭥ U+2B65
3	🗏 U+1F5CF	🗑 U+1F5D1	⭪ U+2B6A
4	🗐 U+1F5D0	🗔 U+1F5D4	⭬ U+2B6C
5	🗄 U+1F5C4	🖵 U+1F5B5	⭫ U+2B6B
6	⏳ U+23F3	🖶 U+1F5B6	⭭ U+2B6D
7	🖮 U+1F5AE	🖷 U+1F5B7	⭍ U+2B4D
8	🖰 U+1F5B0	🖸 U+1F5B8	⮠ U+2BA0
9	🖲 U+1F5B2	🖭 U+1F5AD	⮡ U+2BA1

Symbol	Wingdings	Wingdings 2	Wingdings 3
!	🖉 U+1F589	🖊 U+1F58A	⭠ U+2B60
"	✂ U+2702	🖋 U+1F58B	⭢ U+2B62
#	✁ U+2701	🖌 U+1F58C	⭡ U+2B61
$	👓 U+1F453	🖍 U+1F58D	⭣ U+2B63
%	🕭 U+1F56D	✄ U+2704	⭦ U+2B66
&	🕮 U+1F56E	✀ U+2700	⭧ U+2B67
'	🕯 U+1F56F	🕾 U+1F57E	⭩ U+2B69
(	🕿 U+1F57F	🕽 U+1F57D	⭨ U+2B68
)	✆ U+2706	🗅 U+1F5C5	⭰ U+2B70
*	🖂 U+1F582	🗆 U+1F5C6	⭲ U+2B72
+	🖃 U+1F583	🗇 U+1F5C7	⭱ U+2B71
,	📪 U+1F4EA	🗈 U+1F5C8	⭳ U+2B73
-	📫 U+1F4EB	🗉 U+1F5C9	⭶ U+2B76
.	📬 U+1F4EC	🗊 U+1F5CA	⭸ U+2B78
/	📭 U+1F4ED	🗋 U+1F5CB	⭻ U+2B7B
:	🖳 U+1F5B3	🖯 U+1F5AF	⮢ U+2BA2
;	🖴 U+1F5B4	🖱 U+1F5B1	⮣ U+2BA3
<	🖫 U+1F5AB	🖒 U+1F592	⮤ U+2BA4
=	🖬 U+1F5AC	🖓 U+1F593	⮥ U+2BA5
>	✇ U+2707	🖘 U+1F598	⮦ U+2BA6
?	✍ U+270D	🖙 U+1F599	⮧ U+2BA7
@	🖎 U+1F58E	🖚 U+1F59A	⮐ U+2B90
[	☯ U+262F	🙲 U+1F672	🢡 U+1F8A1
\	🕉 U+1F549	🙳 U+1F673	🢢 U+1F8A2
]	☸ U+2638	‽ U+203D	🢣 U+1F8A3
^	♈ U+2648	🙹 U+1F679	🢤 U+1F8A4
_	♉ U+2649	🙺 U+1F67A	🢥 U+1F8A5
`	♊ U+264A	🙻 U+1F67B	🢦 U+1F8A6
{	🏵 U+1F3F5	❼ U+277C	◥ U+25E5
\|	🏶 U+1F3F6	❽ U+277D	🞀 U+1F780
}	🙶 U+1F676	❾ U+277E	🞂 U+1F782
~	🙷 U+1F677	❿ U+277F	🞁 U+1F781

Common phrases in Wingdings

English	Wingdings
Hello World	🖗♏⚫⚫🞏 🕈🞏❒⚫♎
I love you	🖐 ⚫🞏❖♏ ⮹🞏◆
Yes	✡♏🞟
No	🕱🞏
OK	🏳😐
Help	🖗♏⚫🞐
Thank you	❄♒♋◼🙵 ⮹🞏◆
Good luck	☝🞏🞏♎ ⚫◆♍🙵

How to type Wingdings in Word

Microsoft Office on Windows and Mac usually includes all three Wingdings fonts, so this works in Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Type your message normally, then select it.
Open the font list on the Home tab and choose Wingdings, Wingdings 2 or Wingdings 3.
To add a single symbol, go to Insert, then Symbol, then More Symbols, and pick a Wingdings font.
To share the message outside Word, type it into this translator instead, because the font does not travel with copied text.

Wingdings vs Wingdings 2 vs Wingdings 3

Font	What's in it	"Hello World"	Symbols above U+FFFF
Wingdings	Hands, faces, zodiac signs, office items and religious symbols.	🖗♏⚫⚫🞏 🕈🞏❒⚫♎	51 of 94
Wingdings 2	Pens, pointing hands, check boxes, ampersands and circled numbers.	🖠🙚③③⑥ 🛇⑥⑨③🙧	63 of 94
Wingdings 3	Almost all arrows and triangles, plus keyboard key symbols.	⮄🢫🡗🡗🡙 ⍽🡙△🡗🢪	25 of 94

Character counts on X

Version	Text	Characters you see	X count
Plain text	Hello World	11	11
Wingdings	🖗♏⚫⚫🞏 🕈🞏❒⚫♎	11	21
Wingdings 2	🖠🙚③③⑥ 🛇⑥⑨③🙧	11	21
Wingdings 3	⮄🢫🡗🡗🡙 ⍽🡙△🡗🢪	11	21

History of Wingdings

Wingdings began as three symbol fonts by type designers Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. Microsoft renamed them to go with Windows.

Date	What happened
1990–1991	Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes design Lucida Icons, Lucida Arrows and Lucida Stars to match their Lucida typefaces.
1990–1992	Microsoft licenses the fonts for Windows 3.1 test releases, then buys them, picks symbols from all three and combines them into one font named Wingdings.
April 1992	Windows 3.1 ships with Wingdings. The remaining symbols follow in a Microsoft font pack as Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3.
1992	Days after the Windows 3.1 release, people notice what NYC looks like in Wingdings.
1993	The font's design and symbol order receive U.S. Design Patent D341848.
1997	Microsoft releases Webdings, where NYC deliberately reads as an eye, a heart and a city skyline.
September 2001	A hoax email claims Q33 NY was a 9/11 flight number with a hidden Wingdings message.
2007	The design patent expires.
June 2014	Unicode 7.0 adds hundreds of Wingdings and Webdings symbols, so every Wingdings character gets a Unicode equivalent.
2015	Undertale introduces W. D. Gaster, whose dialogue is written in Wingdings.
April 2024	The SNL sketch "Papyrus 2" reveals Ryan Gosling's character as Steven Wingdings, son of the font's fictional creator.

NYC and Q33 NY in Wingdings

Wingdings in games and pop culture

Translate Wingdings to English

Wingdings to text reads all three fonts, even mixed in one message, ignores the invisible style characters some apps add, and leaves anything it doesn't recognize as it is.

👎♏♍🞏♎♏ 🔾♏

Decode me

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Terms used on this page

Wingdings: A family of three Microsoft symbol fonts that show pictures instead of letters, released in 1992.
Dingbat font: A font made of symbols and ornaments rather than letters. Zapf Dingbats, Wingdings and Webdings are well-known examples.
Webdings: A separate Microsoft symbol font from 1997, made for web pages. It uses different symbols from Wingdings.
Symbol font encoding: How Wingdings works in Word: the document stores normal letters and the font draws pictures for them.
Unicode: The standard that gives every character, including Wingdings symbols, its own code so it looks the same in any app.
Code point: A character's number in Unicode, written like U+270C for ✌.
Variation selector: An invisible character that asks for a symbol's black-and-white text style (U+FE0E) or its color emoji style (U+FE0F).
Manicule: A pointing hand symbol. Wingdings and Wingdings 2 include more than a dozen of them.
Weighted character count: X's way of measuring post length, where most symbols and all emoji count as 2 characters.

Frequently asked questions

The Wingdings alphabet, decoding, Word, copy and paste, NYC, Undertale and the three Wingdings fonts.

What is a Wingdings translator?+

Is this the real Wingdings alphabet?+

How do I translate Wingdings to English?+

Choose Wingdings to text and paste the symbols. The decoder reads all three Wingdings fonts at once and tells you which one the message uses: 👎♏♍🞏♎♏ 🔾♏ becomes "Decode me".

Why are capital and lowercase letters different in Wingdings?+

Wingdings gives every key its own symbol, so A is ✌ while a is ♋, the sign for Cancer. Capitals and lowercase letters never share a symbol, so the case you type changes the message.

How do I copy and paste Wingdings?+

Type your text, press Copy Wingdings, and paste it into a message, post or document. The symbols are standard Unicode characters, so they keep their look without the Wingdings font installed.

Why does Wingdings turn back into letters when I paste it from Word?+

What is the difference between Wingdings, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3?+

What does NYC mean in Wingdings?+

Why do some Wingdings symbols show as boxes or color emoji?+

Do Wingdings symbols take up more characters on X?+

Usually. X counts most symbols as 2 characters, so "Hello World" is 11 characters in plain text but 21 in Wingdings. The translator shows the count against X's 280-character limit.

What language is Gaster's text in Undertale?+

Is the Wingdings translator free and private?+

Yes. It runs in your browser, needs no account, and sends nothing to a server.

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