Upside Down Text Generator

Flip text upside down and reverse it so it reads correctly when the phone is turned over. Plus mirrored text.

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  1. No. 23Upside downWorks on most devices

    ɹǝpun uʍop ɯoɹɟ ollǝH

  2. No. 24MirrorHit-and-miss

    ɿɘbᴎu ᴎwob moɿʇ ollɘH

Works almost everywhere · Works on most devices · Hit-and-miss — based on which fonts ship with current iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Check any text.

How upside down text works

Upside-down text is a clever borrowing trick. Unicode has no “rotated” letters, so each letter is replaced by a character that happens to look like it flipped: ɐ from the phonetic alphabet, ʇ from linguistics, ∀ from logic (“for all”). The order is reversed too, so the sentence reads correctly when you turn your screen 180°.

Capitals are the weak spot — letters like ꓭ and ꓷ come from the Lisu script and are missing from some fonts. Lowercase flips are much safer.

Styles on this page

  • Upside down — Borrowed look-alikes, written in reverse. Works on most devices
  • Mirror — Look-alikes from Cyrillic, Canadian syllabics and more. Hit-and-miss

Curious why these letters are not a real font? See how Unicode styles work, step by step.

Questions

Why is the text reversed?

When you rotate a line of text 180°, the last letter ends up first. Reversing the order means the flipped text reads left-to-right when the phone is turned over.

Can I flip it back?

Yes. Run upside-down text through the generator again, or paste it into the compatibility checker and use “Make plain”.

Why do some capital letters show as boxes?

Flipped capitals come from rarer scripts such as Lisu. If a phone’s fonts do not include them, a box appears. Use lowercase for the widest support.