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Wingdings Translator

Turn English into Wingdings symbols you can copy and paste, or paste Wingdings to read it in plain English.

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When this is on, each symbol carries an invisible marker (U+FE0E) that asks apps for the black and white style. Turn it off to let apps use their default style, which can be color emoji.

C, D, K, M are color emoji by default: most phones and many apps keep them in color even with this on.

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How to use the translator

  1. Pick a font above the translator: Wingdings, Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3 or Webdings. Then type or paste English in the English box. The symbols appear in the black box as you type.
  2. Press Copy to put the symbols on your clipboard, Save as PNG to download them as an image that looks the same everywhere, or Share link to send a link that shows the symbols first and the English only when the reader asks for it.
  3. To read a Wingdings message, press the arrows between the two labels and paste the symbols. The translator works out which of the four fonts they come from. If you paste symbols into the English box, it offers to switch for you.
  4. Only have a screenshot? Open the symbol keyboard and tap each symbol you see to decode it.

Characters that Wingdings does not change, such as spaces and line breaks, pass through as they are. Anything else without a symbol is left as it is and underlined in the result, and the counter under the English box says how many.

How Wingdings translation works

Wingdings is a font, not a language. It keeps the keys you type but draws a picture in place of each character: capital A becomes a victory hand, the digit 0 a folder, the at sign a writing hand. There are 94 printable keyboard characters and each has its own symbol, so text typed here can be turned back into the original exactly. Symbols pasted from elsewhere can be ambiguous: a thumbs up typed as an emoji is also the Wingdings symbol for C, so it decodes as C.

When you type in Word with the Wingdings font, the file still contains normal letters. This translator does something different: it replaces every character with the Unicode code point for the same symbol. That is why the result can be pasted into a chat app or a game forum, and why the Wingdings alphabet chart can show the name of every symbol.

Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3 and Webdings

Wingdings has three siblings, and the translator above handles all of them. Each has its own page with the full character chart: the Wingdings 2 translator for hands, circled numbers, stars and office shapes, the Wingdings 3 translator for arrows and triangles, and the Webdings translator for pictures of buildings, vehicles, people and media controls. To see how the four differ, read Webdings vs Wingdings, and to write in the fonts in Word or Google Docs, see how to type in Wingdings.

Wingdings and Undertale

Many people find Wingdings through Undertale. Some of the game's hidden text, usually linked by players to the character W. D. Gaster, is written in Wingdings, and fans use the font to write messages in the same style. That text is in capital letters, so type in uppercase to match it: HELLO and hello give different symbols. To read Wingdings from the game, paste the symbols into the translator above, or use the Gaster translator, which switches to capital letters for you. The best known example, Undertale's Entry Number 17, has its own walkthrough. This site is an independent fan tool and is not affiliated with Undertale or its creator.

A little history

Type designers Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow drew the symbols in 1990 and 1991 as three fonts called Lucida Icons, Lucida Arrows and Lucida Stars. Microsoft renamed and reorganized them and released them in 1992 as Wingdings, which has shipped with Windows since version 3.1 (Microsoft's font notes). That same year people noticed that typing "NYC" produced a skull and crossbones, a Star of David and a thumbs up. Microsoft said the arrangement was not intentional. Many of the font's symbols became part of Unicode in 2014, which is what makes copy and paste possible today.

Frequently asked questions

Can I copy and paste the Wingdings output?

Yes. The output is made of standard Unicode symbols, not a special font, so it pastes into messages, documents and social posts. Each symbol is copied with a marker that asks for the plain black style, but how it finally looks depends on the app and font that display it. Save a PNG when the exact look matters.

Does capitalization matter?

Yes. Wingdings gives uppercase and lowercase letters different symbols. Capital H is a pointing hand, while lowercase h is the Aquarius sign. Type your text exactly as you want it to read back.

Why do some symbols look like emoji?

Four Wingdings symbols, the thumbs up (C), thumbs down (D), neutral face (K) and bomb (M), are color emoji by default, and most phones and many apps keep showing them in color even when asked for the plain style. The others are copied with a marker that asks for the plain black style, which most apps respect. How any symbol finally looks depends on the app and fonts of whoever reads it. The Plain symbols (no color emoji) switch above the translation controls that marker: it is on by default, and turning it off lets apps use their usual style. Either way, the translation back to English stays the same.

Do I need the Wingdings font installed?

No. This translator never uses the Wingdings font itself. It swaps each character for the matching Unicode symbol, so nobody needs Wingdings installed to read the result.

How do I write in Wingdings in Microsoft Word?

Select Wingdings in the font menu and type normally, and each key will appear as a symbol. If you send that document to someone without the font, they will see ordinary letters, which is why copying Unicode symbols from this page is more reliable.

Why does another translator give me different symbols?

Before 2014, Unicode had no exact match for many Wingdings shapes, so older charts used look-alikes, such as a skull and crossbones for N. This translator uses the exact symbols added in Unicode 7.0, and it still decodes the common look-alikes.

Can I use it offline?

Yes, after one visit while online. Your browser then keeps a copy of the Wingdings, Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3, Webdings, Gaster and alphabet pages, so translating, copying, saving a PNG and the symbol keyboard keep working without a connection. To open it like an app, use Add to Home Screen in your browser menu on a phone, or the install icon in the address bar on a computer.

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