How does upside-down text work?
There is no upside-down style in Unicode, so the effect is assembled from look-alikes. The generator reverses your text, because rotating a line 180 degrees puts its last letter first, then swaps each character for one from elsewhere in Unicode that resembles it turned over: a becomes ɐ, e becomes ǝ, ? becomes ¿. The result is plain text you can paste anywhere.
Flipping your text
- Type or paste into the input box.
- The flipped version appears as you type.
- Click Copy and paste it wherever you want.
Some real outputs:
| You type | You get |
|---|---|
Hello World! |
¡plɹoM ollǝH |
pizza 2026? |
¿9ᄅ0ᄅ ɐzzᴉd |
café; a-b/c = 5% |
%ϛ = ɔ/q-ɐ ;éɟɐɔ |
The third example shows the limits: é, ;, -, /, = and % have no substitute, so they appear unchanged, just in reversed positions.
Where the flipped characters come from
Most lowercase substitutes are "turned" letters from the phonetic alphabet, which linguists use for sounds and which Unicode encodes in its IPA Extensions block. The rest are borrowed from mathematical symbols, other alphabets and even East Asian scripts. You can look any of them up in the Unicode code charts.
| Normal | Flipped | Code point | Unicode name |
|---|---|---|---|
| a | ɐ | U+0250 | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED A |
| e | ǝ | U+01DD | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED E |
| t | ʇ | U+0287 | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T |
| i | ᴉ | U+1D09 | LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED I |
| A | ∀ | U+2200 | FOR ALL |
| T | ⊥ | U+22A5 | UP TACK |
| F | Ⅎ | U+2132 | TURNED CAPITAL F |
| K | Ʞ | U+A7B0 | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED K |
| Q | ℺ | U+213A | ROTATED CAPITAL Q |
| & | ⅋ | U+214B | TURNED AMPERSAND |
| 2 | ᄅ | U+1105 | HANGUL CHOSEONG RIEUL |
| 4 | ㄣ | U+3123 | BOPOMOFO LETTER EN |
| ? | ¿ | U+00BF | INVERTED QUESTION MARK |
Some letters already look the same upside down, or close enough, and are passed through as they are: lowercase l, o, s, x and z, and capitals H, I, N, O, S, X and Z. Pairs that are rotations of each other simply swap: b and q, d and p, n and u, 6 and 9.
Imperfect and missing flips
A few mappings are compromises, and it's better to know before you post something:
- Capital B and D have no good rotated equivalent, so they stay as B and D.
- Capital M and W swap with each other, which works visually.
- Capital K and Q use their own turned forms, Ʞ and ℺, which are newer or rarer characters, so some fonts show them in a fallback typeface or as empty boxes.
- A double quote becomes two commas,
,,, so the output is one character longer. - Anything outside basic English (accents, Cyrillic, emoji, most punctuation) is not flipped.
Lowercase gets the most convincing results because the phonetic alphabet covers nearly every lowercase letter. If a phrase looks odd in capitals, run it through the case converter to lowercase it first.
Caveats before you use it
There's no way back. The tool flips in one direction only. Paste ollǝH back in and you get Hǝllo: the order is restored, but ǝ isn't mapped back to e.
Fonts vary. The substitutes for 2, 4 and 7 come from Korean Hangul and Chinese Bopomofo, so on some devices they render in a different typeface or as empty boxes. If the look must be exact, for a graphic or a slide, render it as a picture with the text to image converter.
Screen readers can't read it. Assistive technology reads the actual characters, so ɐ is announced as a phonetic symbol or skipped, never as "a". Keep flipped text for decoration and jokes, not for usernames, links or anything someone needs to understand.
For backwards text without the flip, use the reverse text generator, which keeps every character as it is and only changes the order.
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