Wingdings Translator & Converter

Wingdings is a dingbat font Microsoft shipped starting in 1990, mapping every keyboard character to a small picture instead of a letterform — type a capital J and you get a smiling face, type a lowercase o and you get a square. This tool reproduces that mapping using standalone Unicode symbols, so the pictures show up correctly on any device without needing the Wingdings font installed.

Four variants are supported: the original Wingdings, plus Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3 (which Microsoft added later with different symbol sets), and Webdings, a related but separate 1997 dingbat font built for the early web. Switch between them with the Font dropdown — each one maps the same 95 keyboard characters to a completely different set of symbols.

Encoding and decoding

By default the tool encodes: type ordinary text on the left and its Wingdings equivalent appears on the right. Click the swap button to flip directions and decode instead — paste symbols on the left and their original letters, numbers, and punctuation appear on the right. Decoding only recognizes the Unicode symbols this tool itself produces; if you copy text that was styled with the actual Wingdings font in an app like Word, you're copying the underlying letters already, since the font itself never changes the character data.

Only the printable ASCII set — uppercase and lowercase letters, digits 0–9, a space, and the standard punctuation marks — has a symbol assigned in any of the four variants. Anything else, including accented letters, other scripts, and line breaks, passes through the conversion unchanged. One curiosity in the original Wingdings specifically: the "@" character has no symbol assigned to it at all and passes through as a plain "@", while all three of the other variants do assign it a symbol.

Why does a font like this exist?

Dingbat fonts predate Wingdings by centuries — printers have long kept a stock of decorative type ornaments called "dingbats" for use as bullets, dividers, and flourishes. Wingdings packaged that idea for the desktop-publishing era: before inserting an actual image into a document was easy, a dingbat font let you drop a hand-pointer, a checkbox, or a mailbox icon into a Word document just by switching the font on a couple of characters. It effectively worked as a low-tech, offline predecessor to today's emoji.

What's in each variant?

• Wingdings — hand gestures, faces, weather icons, religious symbols, and everyday objects like scissors and mailboxes.
• Wingdings 2 — writing implements, pointing hands, checkboxes and ballot marks, and circled/solid numbers.
• Wingdings 3 — almost entirely arrows and directional symbols, in straight, diagonal, outline, and solid styles.
• Webdings — transport icons, buildings, media-player controls, and other web-era interface symbols. Unlike the three Wingdings variants, every Webdings character was formally added to Unicode in 2014.

Wingdings chart: letters and numbers

The table below lists the symbol for every letter and digit in the default Wingdings font. Switch the Font dropdown above to see the equivalents for Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3, or Webdings rendered live.

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Last reviewed: August 2026