Wingdings Translator
A Wingdings translator turns your text into the Wingdings symbol fonts, namely Wingdings, Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3, and Webdings, showing all four at once. Type below to see your text as symbols, copy the letters to reuse them, and use the character map to read Wingdings back as ordinary text.
These symbol sets are fonts, so the boxes below render your letters as symbols. Copy gives you the underlying letters. Paste them into a document set to the matching font and the symbols show up there.
How the Wingdings translator works
Wingdings isn't a code or a language, it's a font. Behind the scenes each Wingdings symbol sits at the same spot as an ordinary letter, digit, or punctuation mark. Apply the Wingdings font to the letter A and the computer draws the symbol Microsoft placed at position A instead of the letter. So Wingdings text is really just normal text wearing a different font.
This translator uses that fact. You type letters, and each box shows them in one of the four symbol fonts, so you can preview all four at once. The symbols you see depend on the fonts installed on your device. Windows ships all four, so the preview looks right there. The Copy button copies the underlying letters, because that's what carries the mapping: paste those letters into a document, set that text to the matching font, and the symbols appear.
Encoding and decoding Wingdings
Because Wingdings is a font over ordinary characters, encoding and decoding are two sides of the same thing. To encode, you type text and read the symbols. To decode a Wingdings message, you need to know which letter each symbol stands for, then read the letters back as plain text. The character map below lists the letters and digits next to the Wingdings symbol each one makes, so you can turn a symbol back into its letter and rebuild the message.
This matters because Wingdings symbols can't just be typed as symbols and pasted as text somewhere else. The data underneath is always the letter. So the reliable way to share a Wingdings message is to share the letters and tell the reader to apply the Wingdings font, or to share a picture of the symbols. The map turns this page into a two-way reference for both writing and reading Wingdings.
A short history and everyday uses
We will own up: the Webdings one is partly for fun. Sending a class a note in Webdings and letting them crack it with the character map below has bought us more than a few quiet minutes.
Wingdings arrived with early versions of Microsoft Windows as a way to include handy little pictures, arrows, checkmarks, hands, faces, and office icons, back when dropping an image into a document was awkward. Webdings came later with a more web-flavoured set. Today people use these fonts for quick decorative symbols in documents and slides, for puzzles and secret-message games, and out of plain nostalgia.
Everything here runs in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded or saved on a server, and your latest text is kept only in your own browser so it survives a refresh.
Wingdings character map
Each cell shows a letter or digit and the Wingdings symbol it produces. Use it to decode a Wingdings message back into plain text.
Frequently asked questions
How does a Wingdings translator work?
Wingdings is a font where each symbol sits at the position of an ordinary character. The translator shows your typed letters in the Wingdings, Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3, and Webdings fonts, so you see the symbols while the text underneath stays as letters.
Can I decode Wingdings back into text?
Yes. Since each symbol maps to a specific letter or digit, you can use the character map on this page to look up what each symbol means and read the message back as plain text.
Why does Copy give me letters instead of symbols?
The symbols come from a font, so the real data is the letter underneath. Copying the letters lets you paste them into a document and apply the Wingdings font there to show the symbols.
Why do the symbols look different or missing on my device?
The preview needs the Wingdings fonts installed. Windows includes them; on some phones or non-Windows systems they may be missing, so you'll see letters or fallback boxes instead.
Do you keep my text?
No. The translator runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded or saved on a server.
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