How upside down text is made
There's no "flip" button in Unicode, but there are plenty of letters from other alphabets and phonetic symbols that look like normal letters turned over. The generator does two things:
- It swaps each letter for its upside-down look-alike, such as a → ɐ, e → ǝ, h → ɥ, t → ʇ and y → ʎ.
- It reverses the order of the characters, so the text reads correctly when you turn your phone around.
hello world → plɹoʍ ollǝɥ
Letters that look the same either way, like o, s, x and z, stay as they are. Some capitals have no flipped twin, so those stay upright too.
Backwards text
The "Backwards" style only reverses the order of the letters without flipping them: hello becomes olleh. It's handy for puzzles, riddles and secret messages that friends have to decode.
Fun ways to use it
- Reply "ʇɐɥʍ" when something makes your head spin.
- Post a joke whose punchline is upside down.
- Hide a spoiler that people have to flip their phone to read.
- Write a birthday message from "down under".
Limits to keep in mind
Because the characters come from many different alphabets, the result can look a little uneven in some fonts. It's meant for fun, not for anything important. Numbers flip too, though a few, like 3 and 4, use the closest available shape.
Want more chaos? Try glitch text. For a cleaner trick, tiny superscript is fun too.
Make and generate upside down writing
You can make upside down text by typing it above. It works as an upside down writing generator: the words are flipped and reversed so they read correctly when you turn your screen around. Copy the result and paste it into any chat.