How do I type upside down text on my phone?

Phone keyboards have no upside down mode. Type your text in the box at the top of this page, press Copy text, and paste it in your app.

How do I read upside down text someone sent me?

Paste it in the box. Turning twice gives back the original, so the result shows the normal text.

Why are some letters not really upside down?

For g, j, J, L, Q, 1, 4, 5 and 7 the generator uses a lookalike and marks it with a dotted line. Hold the mouse over it to see why. Emoji and most symbols have no turned form at all, so they stay as they are.

What is the difference between upside down and mirror text?

Upside down text is turned half a circle, so the top of each letter is at the bottom. Mirror text is flipped left to right, the way a mirror shows it. Both put the letters in reverse order.

Why do I see boxes instead of letters?

Your device has no font with that character. It happens most with the turned 2 and 3 and with the Lisu letters for B, D, K and R. Newer phones show them.

Can I use upside down text in my username?

Many apps only allow plain letters, numbers and a few signs in a username. Put it in your display name, bio or posts instead.

Upside Down Text Generator: Flip Your Text

Type your text and it turns 180 degrees, so it reads right when you turn the screen. Copy it into any app.

A hanging sign turned upside down with a curved arrow and a bat hanging beside it

Last checked November 7, 2026 by the TextEditor.com team

How upside down text works

Text on a screen can't really be turned around. The generator swaps each letter for a character that looks like it was turned over, like ɐ for a and ʇ for t. Then it puts the letters in reverse order. Turn your phone around and the text reads from left to right again.

Two phones: one turned upside down showing HELLO upside down, and one right side up showing HELLO, with a half turn arrow between them — Upside down text is written to be read with the screen turned around. Turn it half a circle and it reads from left to right again.

Turning twice gives back the original. So if someone sends you upside down text, paste it in the box and you can read it.

Turn the screen

Your words

plɹoʍ ollǝH

The button turns the box half a circle, the way you would turn your phone. The characters inside stay the same.

Which letters have a real upside down twin?

Unicode has no upside down alphabet. Most small letters still have a true turned form, because the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) writes some sounds with turned letters like ɐ, ɥ and ʎ. Capitals and digits are harder. Some come from math, like ∀ (for all) and ⊥ (up tack), and some from the Lisu, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets.

A to Z, a to z and 0 to 9, turned

Capitals: 7 exact twins, 7 look the same, 9 borrowed, 3 stand-ins

Small letters: 19 exact twins, 5 look the same, 2 stand-ins

Digits

Exact twin Exact twin from math or another alphabet Closest stand-in Looks the same turned

Tap a box to copy the character. Hold the mouse over it to see its Unicode name and where it comes from.

These 10 characters have no exact twin. The generator uses the closest lookalike and marks it with a dotted line in the result.

You type	You get	What it really is
1	Ɩ	Latin capital letter iota, U+0196
4	ㄣ	Bopomofo letter en, U+3123
5	ϛ	Greek small letter stigma, U+03DB
7	ㄥ	Bopomofo letter eng, U+3125
J	ſ	Latin small letter long s, U+017F
L	˥	Modifier letter extra-high tone bar, U+02E5
Q	Ό	Greek capital letter omicron with tonos, U+038C
g	ƃ	Latin small letter b with topbar, U+0183
j	ɾ	Latin small letter r with fishhook, U+027E
;	؛	Arabic semicolon, U+061B

The turned 2 and 3, ↊ and ↋, are real. They came in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 as the digits for ten and eleven in the base 12 number system. Unicode also has true turned capitals: . Many phone fonts still lack the newer ones, so the generator sticks to older lookalikes. Tap one to copy it and test it yourself.

Turn, mirror or flip only?

The three modes change different things. Here is your own text in each of them.

Mode	What changes	Your text
Turn upside down	Each letter is flipped, and the order is reversed	plɹoʍ ollǝH
Mirror	Each letter is mirrored, and the order is reversed	blɿow ollɘH
Flip only	Each letter is flipped, the order stays	Hǝllo ʍoɹlp
Backwards	Only the order is reversed	dlrow olleH

Mirror text is what you see when you hold a note up to a mirror. Unicode has mirrored forms for fewer letters. Cyrillic gives Я for R and И for N, and phonetics gives ɘ for e. 39 of the 52 letters work, and letters like G, J and k stay as they are.

Flip only is for a puzzle or a logo look, where the words stay in place. For plain backwards text, with normal letters in reverse order, use the reverse text generator. It can also reverse whole words and check palindromes.

What happens to accents and emoji?

An accent above a letter ends up under it when you turn the letter. The generator moves it there: é becomes ǝ̗ and ñ becomes ṵ. Turn off "Keep accents" to drop them instead.

Emoji, Chinese characters and most symbols have no turned form. They stay as they are, and each emoji stays whole, so 👍🏽 keeps its skin tone. Type below to see how each character turns.

Character by character

Try your own text

Top: what you typed. Bottom: what it turns into. Green is an exact twin, orange a stand-in, and a dashed box means the character has no upside down form.

Upside down text with more than one line

When you turn a sheet of paper, the last line ends up at the top. The generator does the same, so a poem or a list reads right from the top when the screen is turned. Turn off "Turn the line order too" to keep every line in its place.

A short poem, turned

Your lines

noʎ ǝɹɐ os pu∀ uʍop ǝpᴉsdn sᴉ ɯǝod sᴉɥ⊥ ǝnlq ǝɹɐ sʇǝloᴉΛ pǝɹ ǝɹɐ sǝsoꓤ

Press the button to turn the box. The first line of the poem is now at the top.

Where upside down text works

The result is plain text, not a picture. You can paste it anywhere you can type, like a bio, a comment, a chat or an email. Upside down letters count as one character each, the same as normal letters.

A few things can go wrong. An older phone may have no font for the newer characters, like ↊ and ↋ from 2015 or the Lisu letters from 2009, and shows an empty box. Search does not find the words, because to a computer ʇxǝ⊥ is not the word "Text". Screen readers read out the odd character names or skip them, so keep anything important in normal letters. The Wikipedia article on text transformation has more about these tricks.

For more styles, try the font converter, or put your text in circles with the bubble text generator.