# Wingdings Translator

Translate text to Wingdings symbols or decode Wingdings back to text. Compare four symbol fonts, copy portable characters, and inspect every code.

Type text to see portable symbol mappings, or paste symbols to read the source keys. Everything stays in your browser.

Canonical page: <https://translatewingdings.com/>

## Fixed example

The page ships with this example, computed at build time from the mapping data. It is not live user input; the translator itself runs in the browser.

- Family: Wingdings
- Direction: Auto · Text → Wingdings
- Output mode: Portable text
- Input: `Hello`
- Result (portable text): `☟♏︎⚫︎⚫︎🞏`
- Characters: 5; recognized: 5
- State: success
- Summary: 5 of 5 non-whitespace characters have portable mappings in Wingdings.

### First character evidence

| Key | Glyph | Unicode name | Code | Portability |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| H | ☟ | WHITE DOWN POINTING INDEX | U+261F | Portable mapping |

## Compatibility

Data as of 2026-08-15. 0 of 32 combinations verified by testing; 4 derived from the documented mechanism; 0 supported by first-party documentation; 28 remain unverified.

| Destination | Portable text | Word & Office | Copy for Word | PNG image |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Microsoft Word (desktop) | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified |
| Microsoft Excel | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified |
| Microsoft Outlook | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified |
| Google Docs | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified |
| Microsoft PowerPoint | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified |
| Discord / Slack | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified |
| X / Instagram bio | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified | Unverified · Unverified |
| Plain text / terminal / code | Works · Mechanism | No · Mechanism | No · Mechanism | No · Mechanism |

Evidence for resolved cells:

- Plain text / terminal / code / Portable text: Mechanism: Portable text copies standard Unicode scalar values rather than font formatting, so a plain-text destination can carry the characters; glyph shape can still vary by installed fonts.
- Plain text / terminal / code / Word & Office: Mechanism: Word & Office mode preserves source keys whose symbol appearance depends on applying the selected Wingdings or Webdings font; plain text cannot carry that font state.
- Plain text / terminal / code / Copy for Word: Mechanism: Copy for Word places rich HTML plus plain source keys on the clipboard; a plain-text destination ignores the rich font formatting and receives only the source-key text.
- Plain text / terminal / code / PNG image: Mechanism: A PNG is pixel data, not a text payload; a plain-text field, terminal, or source-code file cannot represent it as inline editable text.

Unverified means this destination and output combination has not been reproduced or supported by a qualifying basis.

Only the plain-text row is resolved from the product's documented font-versus-text mechanism. App-specific clipboard, font, image-insertion, and version behavior remains unverified until reproduced on the named destination and version.

## Why symbols can turn back into letters

Wingdings is a font: applying it changes how source keys look, not the underlying text. Plain-text destinations can therefore reveal the original letters. Portable mode substitutes standard Unicode characters where a documented mapping exists. Office mode keeps the source keys and asks the destination to apply the selected font. Image mode captures this device’s rendering when appearance matters more than editable text.

## Important limits

Wingdings is a font, not a language or text encoding. A portable Unicode mapping can still render differently across fonts and devices. Rows labeled close match are not claimed to be visually identical. Font-only rows intentionally have no portable Unicode claim. Microsoft font binaries are not served by this site.

No translator input is sent to the server. Share text is stored after the URL fragment marker `#`, which is not included in HTTP requests. The site has no analytics, account, advertising script, or translation API.

## Sources

The mapping build uses Unicode L2/11-052R, current Unicode character names, Microsoft typography/support documentation, and the pinned BSD-2-Clause package `dingbat-to-unicode@1.0.1`. Full row-level provenance is included in `/chart.json`.

## More pages

- [Translator](/index.md)
- [Decode](/wingdings-to-text.md)
- [Chart](/chart.md)
- [Privacy & Terms](/legal.md)
- [Site guide for language models](/llms.txt)