Translate text to Wingdings 2 — and read the chart

Wingdings, Wingdings 2, and Wingdings 3 are separate symbol fonts in the same family. Each one maps the same keyboard keys to a different set of pictures. A Wingdings 2 translator uses that second mapping: you type ordinary text, and the output follows the Wingdings 2 set rather than the default Wingdings 1 set.

This is easy to miss. The homepage translator can already switch sets, but the default is Wingdings 1. If you paste a line that was typed in Wingdings 2, the translator switches to that set when it can identify the symbols. If you choose a different set by hand, symbols with no match stay as they are, and a note tells you which set to select.

The result is a copyable Unicode stand-in for each mapped key, so you can paste it into a chat or a document without installing the font. Copied marks may look different across devices and may not exactly match Word. Why a font switch and pasted symbols behave differently is explained in our guide to typing in Wingdings across apps.

When the default font does not match your symbols

That automatic switch is what you want when the default Wingdings 1 set does not match the symbols you pasted. If you then switch to a different set by hand, a note names the set that matches.

If the letters you care about are Webdings icons instead, a separate Webdings translator for that other Microsoft symbol font uses a mapping of its own.

The chart in the translator on this site follows the set you select. Search by key or by Unicode code point, then select a tile to copy its symbol. Uppercase and lowercase keys are different pictures, just as they are in the font.

People often open a Wingdings 2 translator because they want a specific mark rather than a whole sentence. The table below uses this site’s mapping — the same table the translator applies.

Circled numbers continue along the lowercase keys in this set. Pointing-hand keys are also in this font, on a different set of letters than they occupy in Wingdings 1.

Check marks, ballot boxes, and circled numbers

The check mark and the boxed check are among the reasons people leave the default font. Those two marks live in Wingdings 2, not in this site’s Wingdings 1 mapping. Use the chart when you want one symbol; use the translator when you have a whole line to convert.

1. Open the free homepage translator with Wingdings 2 already selected, or choose Wingdings 2 in the set row if you are already on the homepage.
2. Type or paste English to get symbols, or paste mapped symbols to read them back as letters. Auto detect can pick the direction; you can also set it yourself.
3. Use Copy result to place the output on the clipboard. Letters, numbers, and punctuation on a standard English keyboard are converted; anything the set does not map stays as you typed it.

The tool runs in the browser. There is nothing to install, and the same page adapts to phones, tablets, and desktops.

If you write with ñ or accented vowels, the Spanish-language guide to the same translator, including ñ and accented vowels explains that those letters stay as they are, because the fonts map keyboard positions rather than a language.

Type, paste, and copy the Unicode result

Keep the set on Wingdings 2 for the whole pass. A mixed paste that was typed in more than one font will not all decode under a single set; switch and retry the line if part of it still looks wrong.