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Wingdings is a Microsoft symbol font that turns familiar letters into hands, stars, arrows, and everyday objects. Released in the early 1990s, it belongs to the family of dingbat fonts, alongside classics such as Zapf Dingbats.
It isn’t a new language—just a different way to display characters. That simple substitution made it a favorite for secret messages, internet jokes, and decoding games.
Meet the Wingdings alphabet ↗Enter a message, or switch to decode and paste the symbols you want to read.
Select Wingdings 1, 2, or 3. Your translation updates as you type.
Copy the result with one click and use it in a message, puzzle, or post.
The original Wingdings alphabet. Click any symbol to copy it.
Uppercase and lowercase have different mappings. Unicode symbols may look different from the original font.
Three fonts. Three different symbol sets. The same letter won’t always give you the same picture.
The classic collection: hands, faces, zodiac signs, and everyday pictograms. A good place to start.
Try Wingdings 1 ↗More pointing hands, checkboxes, enclosed numbers, and geometric shapes for expressive messages.
Try Wingdings 2 ↗A directional toolkit packed with arrows, navigation symbols, and keyboard indicators.
Try Wingdings 3 ↗Found Wingdings in a screenshot, a game, or a picture? Open our image guide, match the symbols to the chart, and turn the message back into readable text.
Decode symbols from an image ↗Manual symbol matching. No automatic OCR required.
Read mysterious messages or write your own Gaster-inspired dialogue.
FOR THE LORE LOVERS ↗Create clues for your worlds. Check how symbols display before sharing them.
FOR THE WORLD BUILDERSAdd a cryptic caption or a playful message to your next post.
FOR THE GROUP CHATMake a treasure hunt, a classroom cipher, or a little mystery for a friend.
FOR THE CURIOUS MINDSSelect “Wingdings to Text,” paste your symbols, and choose the matching Wingdings version. Your decoded text appears instantly. If the result looks wrong, try a different version.
Wingdings is a symbol font, not a language. Each character position displays a picture or symbol. It has no grammar or vocabulary of its own.
Yes. Text conversion, decoding, the symbol chart, and copying are free, with no signup required.
You can copy the Unicode symbols from this translator on iPhone. Their appearance depends on the app and fonts available on your device; the original Microsoft Wingdings font is not required for this output.
Some Unicode equivalents have an emoji presentation. Your operating system or app may display them as colorful emojis instead of the original monochrome Wingdings glyphs.
They are separate fonts with different character mappings. Wingdings 1 includes familiar pictograms; Wingdings 2 adds hands, checkboxes, and shapes; Wingdings 3 focuses on arrows.
A picture must first be transcribed into symbols. Our image guide lets you view a picture locally and match its symbols to a chart. Automatic image recognition is not available in this version.
Text conversion happens in your browser. The translator does not send your input text to a server or save it.