Wingdings Translator

How a Wingdings translator works

Wingdings is a font, not a language or a cipher. In Microsoft Word, changing the font to Wingdings makes each key display a symbol. The letters stored underneath stay the same. This translator replaces each key with its Unicode character, using the symbol mappings completed with Unicode 7.0 in 2014. The result is ordinary text you can paste anywhere that accepts text. The reader does not need the Wingdings font, but their device needs glyphs for those Unicode characters.

Capitalization matters: uppercase A is ✌, while lowercase a is ♋. “Hello” becomes 🖗♏⚫⚫🞏 with the standard mapping. The default iPhone-friendly option uses close look-alikes for some symbols.

How to translate English to Wingdings

1. Choose English → Wingdings and type or paste your text. The empty box shows “Hello world” as an example.
2. Pick Wingdings, Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3 or Webdings. Spaces and line breaks stay in place. Accented letters, Chinese characters and emoji stay as typed.
3. For Wingdings, leave iPhone-friendly look-alikes on for better Apple compatibility, or turn it off for the standard characters.
4. Click the result or Copy, then paste it into your message or document.

How to decode Wingdings to English

1. Choose Wingdings → English.
2. Paste the symbols. If you are not sure which font was used, choose Detect font. It picks the font that recognizes the most symbols; a short message can be ambiguous.
3. If the result does not read correctly, select the font yourself. It also reads text from other translators, which often add an invisible variation selector after each symbol, and the older look-alike symbols many of them use.
4. Copy the decoded text. Symbols that the selected font does not recognize stay in the result.

A Word document is different: if its ordinary text is only displayed in the Wingdings font, the English is already there underneath. Select that text and switch its font to Arial or Calibri. You do not need a translator.

Wingdings, Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3 and Webdings

Microsoft assembled Wingdings from Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes's Lucida Icons, Arrows and Stars designs. It has shipped with Windows since Windows 3.1. Type Solutions, Inc. developed Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3; they were distributed with Microsoft Office through the 2010 release.

Microsoft's Vincent Connare designed Webdings. It first shipped with Internet Explorer 4.0 and has been included with Windows since Windows 98.

Wingdings alphabet chart

In Microsoft Word, pick the Wingdings font and press the key in the first column to get the symbol. These tables show the standard Unicode characters, their names and whether Apple's system fonts can show them without the fonts loaded by this page.

Punctuation and symbol keys, from ! and " through # to ~, have mappings too. The tool converts them along with letters and digits.

Why some Wingdings symbols show as boxes

Many Wingdings symbols did not enter the standard until Unicode 7.0. A device needs a font containing those characters to draw them. In October 2026, we tested each symbol on a Mac by comparing its canvas rendering with the system's missing-glyph box. Out of 94 keys per font, Wingdings had 36 missing glyphs; Wingdings 2 had 56 missing glyphs; Wingdings 3 had 66 missing glyphs; Webdings had 29 missing glyphs. We tested on a Mac; iPhones use the same Apple symbol fonts, so expect the same gaps there. On Oct 26, 2026, Edge on Windows 11 displayed all 94 keys in each of the 4 fonts using only system fonts. A Xiaomi Android 15 phone's built-in browser had the same gaps as the Mac, plus 9 more in Wingdings 3 and 4 more in Webdings, also using only system fonts. The iPhone-friendly option does not replace these extra symbols; it only changes Wingdings.

That is why Wingdings starts with iPhone-friendly look-alikes enabled. It replaces 17 missing symbols with similar characters Apple devices can draw. For example: S: 🌢 → 💧; o: 🞏 → □; s: 🞟 → ⬧. Some symbols still have no replacement; the status below the result counts them. Turn the option off to use the standard Unicode characters corresponding to the symbols in Word.

This page loads the open-source Noto Sans Symbols fonts for its results and charts, so you can see every mapped symbol here. The fonts do not come along when you copy. What appears after pasting depends on the receiving device and app.

Wingdings in Undertale and the "NYC" story

W. D. Gaster, a hidden character in Toby Fox's Undertale, uses Wingdings, including in the hidden Entry Number 17. Fans use translators to read these messages and write their own Gaster-style messages.

Within days of the Windows 3.1 release in 1992, people noticed that “NYC” in Wingdings became a skull and crossbones, a Star of David and a thumbs-up: 🕱✡👍. It was circulated as an antisemitic code. Microsoft denied that interpretation and said the arrangement of glyphs was largely arbitrary. In Webdings, released later, “NYC” is widely reported to have been mapped on purpose to an eye, a heart and a city skyline: 👁🎔🏙, echoing “I love New York”.

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