Unicode Text Converter

Convert plain text (letters, sometimes numbers, sometimes punctuation) to obscure characters from Unicode. The output is fully cut-n-pastable text.

Circled ⑧ⓒⓗⓐⓝ
Circled (neg) 8🅒🅗🅐🅝
Fullwidth 8chan
Math bold 𝟖𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧
Math bold Fraktur 8𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖓
Math bold italic 8𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏
Math bold script 8𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓷
Math double-struck 𝟠𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟
Math monospace 𝟾𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗
Math sans 𝟪𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗇
Math sans bold 𝟴𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻
Math sans bold italic 8𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣
Math sans italic 8𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯
Parenthesized ⑻⒞⒣⒜⒩
Regional Indicator 8🇨🇭🇦🇳
Squared 8🄲🄷🄰🄽
Squared (neg) 8🅲🅷🅰🅽
Tag 󠀸󠁣󠁨󠁡󠁮
A-cute pseudoalphabet 8ćháń
CJK+Thai pseudoalphabet 8cんム刀
Curvy 1 pseudoalphabet 8ƈɦคก
Curvy 2 pseudoalphabet 8¢нαη
Curvy 3 pseudoalphabet 8ςђคภ
Faux Cyrillic pseudoalphabet 8сЂаи
Faux Ethiopic pseudoalphabet 8ርዘልክ
Math Fraktur pseudoalphabet 8𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔫
Rock Dots pseudoalphabet 8ċḧäṅ
Small Caps pseudoalphabet 8ᴄʜᴀɴ
Stroked pseudoalphabet 8ȼħȺn
Subscript pseudoalphabet ₈cₕₐₙ
Superscript pseudoalphabet ⁸ᶜʰᵃⁿ
Inverted pseudoalphabet 8ɔɥɐu
Inverted pseudoalphabet (backwards) uɐɥɔ8
Reversed pseudoalphabet 8ↄHAᴎ
Reversed pseudoalphabet (backwards) ᴎAHↄ8

Small FAQ

What conversions does this do?

This toy only converts characters from the ASCII range. Characters are only converted on a one-to-one basis; no combining characters (eg U+20DE COMBINING ENCLOSING SQUARE), many to one (eg ligatures), or context varying (eg Braille) transformations are done.

Current true transforms:
circled, negative circled, Asian fullwidth, math bold, math bold Fraktur, math bold italic, math bold script, math double-struck, math monospace, math sans, math sans-serif bold, math sans-serif bold italic, math sans-serif italic, parenthesized, regional indicator symbols, squared, negative squared, and tagging text (invisible for hidden metadata tagging).

Psuedo transforms (made by picking and choosing from here and there in Unicode) available:
acute accents, CJK based, curvy variant 1, curvy variant 2, curvy variant 3, faux Cyrillic, Mock Ethiopian, math Fraktur, rock dots, small caps, stroked, subscript (many missing, no caps), superscript (some missing), inverted, and reversed (an incomplete alphabet, better with CAPITALS).
Capitalization preserved where available.

What makes an alphabet "psuedo"?

One or more of the letters transliterated has a different meaning or source than intended. In the non-bold version of Fraktur, for example, several letters are "black letter" but most are "mathematical fraktur". In the Faux Cyrillic and Faux Ethiopic, letters are selected merely based on superficial similarities, rather than phonetic or semantic similarities.

What is "CJK"?

CJK is a collective term for the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, all of which use Chinese characters and derivatives in their writing systems.

What is "Fullwidth"?

These are "Roman" letters that are the same width as Japanese characters and are typically used when mixing English and Japanese.

What is the deal with "Tag"?

"Tags" is a Unicode block containing characters for invisibly tagging texts by language. The tag characters are deprecated in favor of markup. All printable ASCII have a tag version. Properly rendered, they have both no glyph and zero width. Note that sometimes zero width text cannot be easily copied.

What is the deal with "Regional Indicator"?

This block of characters is intended to indicate a global region, eg "France". As such some tools use short sequences of Regional Indicators to encode flags. The idea is that the same two-letter country codes used in domain names would be mapped into this block to represent that region, eg, with a flag. So U+1F1EB ("Symbol Letter F") and U+1F1F7 ("Symbol Letter R") are the way the French flag might be encoded: 🇫🇷 (results will vary with browser).

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