Wingdings Converter

What Is Wingdings?

Wingdings is a symbol font created by Microsoft that replaces normal letters with icons. Instead of showing A–Z as text, the Wingdings font displays arrows, hands, shapes, mail icons, and other symbols.

How Wingdings Works

Wingdings does not use real Unicode symbols. It works by:

• Taking a normal character (A–Z, a–z, numbers)
• Applying the Wingdings font
• Showing a symbol instead of the letter

Example: The letter A becomes ✈ only because the Wingdings font changes how it looks.

If you remove the Wingdings font → the symbol becomes a normal letter again.

Who Needs Wingdings?

Wingdings is used by:

• Designers
• Creators
• Students
• People converting text to symbols
• Anyone wanting decorative icons without images
• Users decoding old documents that used Wingdings/Webdings

Purpose of Wingdings

The main purpose of Wingdings is to:

• Add symbolic icons quickly
• Create visual elements without images
• Provide old-style symbols before emoji existed
• Encode or hide simple text (for fun, not security)
• Generate decorative arrows, stars, hands, and shapes

Tools like a Wingdings Converter help users convert normal text into Wingdings or decode Wingdings back to readable text.

Wingdings 1 Mapping Table (A-Z)

(This is the original Microsoft Wingdings set)

Letter	Symbol
A	✁
B	✂
C	✃
D	✄
E	☎
F	✆
G	✇
H	✈
I	✉
J	✌
K	✍
L	✎
M	✏
N	✑
O	✒
P	✓
Q	✔
R	✕
S	✖
T	✗
U	✘
V	✙
W	✚
X	✛
Y	✜
Z	✝

How This Wingdings Translator Works

This Wingdings Converter uses the original Microsoft Wingdings, Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3, and Webdings font mappings. These fonts work differently from normal Unicode symbols.

Wingdings & Webdings Are NOT Unicode Symbols

Wingdings and Webdings do not have real Unicode characters. Instead:

• They are normal English letters (A-Z, a-z)
• The font replaces the letter shapes with symbols
• So “A” is still the letter A - it looks like ✈ only because the Wingdings font was applied.

This means:

✔ The converter outputs real characters (A-Z)

✔ The browser changes how they look using Wingdings fonts

✔ Removing the font will show normal text again

✔ Copy-pasting the output into editors that do not support Wingdings will revert to normal letters

This is normal behavior, not an error.

The Simple Explanation

Wingdings symbols are not real Unicode emojis. They appear only when the Wingdings font is applied. Copying them to text editors that do not support Wingdings will display normal letters instead.