Reverse Text, Mirror & Upside Down

About the Reverse Text, Mirror & Upside Down

Type or paste text and see six versions at once: reversed character by character, with the word order reversed, with each word reversed in place, with the line order reversed, turned upside down (ʇxǝʇ) and mirrored. Copy whichever you need with one click. A palindrome check tells you whether the text reads the same backwards, ignoring spaces, punctuation, capitals and accents.

Characters are reversed the way you see them, not the way they are stored. An emoji with a skin tone such as 👍🏽, a flag such as 🇮🇳, a family emoji or an accented letter typed as a letter plus an accent stays one character. Reversing the stored code points instead would split them apart — 🇮🇳 (India) would become 🇳🇮 (Nicaragua).

Common uses

• Writing backwards or mirrored text for puzzles, escape rooms, posters and social posts.
• Turning a list upside down: reverse the line order of a log, a ranking or a playlist.
• Checking words, phrases or a whole word list (one per line) for palindromes.
• Testing how software handles reversed or unusual Unicode text.

How upside-down and mirror text work

Unicode has no “rotated” or “mirrored” style, so each letter is replaced by a real character that looks like it turned around, and the order of the characters is reversed. Many of them exist in Unicode for exactly this shape: ɐ is LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED A, ǝ is TURNED E, ⅂ is TURNED SANS-SERIF CAPITAL L, ɘ is REVERSED E and ⸮ is REVERSED QUESTION MARK. Where Unicode has no such letter, a close look-alike from another alphabet is used, such as Ԁ (Cyrillic) for an upside-down P.

• Upside down covers A–Z, a–z, 0–9 and common punctuation, and moves accents above a letter to below it (é becomes ǝ̗). With several lines, the whole block is turned, so the last line comes first, as on a page turned 180°. Turn on Keep line order to flip each line where it is.
• Mirrored reverses each line and swaps letters for their mirror images: b and d, p and q, ( and ), ? and ⸮. There is no common mirrored look-alike for g, h, j, k, y, z, G, J, Q, Z and most digits, so those stay as they are, and the card tells you how many were left unchanged. (Unicode does have a few rare reversed letters for phonetics, such as a reversed k added in Unicode 14, but recently added characters are the most likely to show as empty boxes, so they are not used.)

Both tables work in both directions: turning upside-down text upside down again gives the original letters back.

What counts as one character

The text is split into user-perceived characters (extended grapheme clusters, defined in Unicode Standard Annex #29) using your browser’s built-in segmenter. A grapheme cluster keeps together what people see as one character: a letter and its accents, an emoji and its skin-tone modifier, the two regional-indicator letters of a flag, the parts of a family emoji joined by zero-width joiners, a keycap such as 1️⃣ and, in up-to-date browsers, Indic conjuncts such as क्षि. A Windows line ending (CR LF) is also one cluster, so reversed text keeps working line breaks.

Palindrome rules

Only letters and digits are compared, in any script. Upper and lower case are treated as the same (including ß = ss), accents are ignored (é = e), and compatibility forms count as plain letters, so fi, ｆｕｌｌｗｉｄｔｈ and 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝 letters work. If your text has several lines, the tool also lists which lines are palindromes on their own, so you can paste a word list and find them all.

Limitations

• Word order is reversed between spaces, so languages written without spaces between words (Chinese, Japanese, Thai) are treated as one long word.
• Upside-down and mirrored text uses look-alike characters: screen readers read them as different letters, search engines and hashtags do not match them, and fonts that lack a few of them show empty boxes instead.
• Ignoring accents in the palindrome check also merges letters that some languages treat as different, such as Russian й and и.
• Scripts other than Latin keep their letters when turned or mirrored; only the character order changes.

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