Clean Text
Fix everything wrong with pasted text in a single pass.
Mirror Text
Reverse text so it reads correctly in a mirror.
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Hold this up to a mirror — the reflection should read normally.
Quick Tool Overview
Mirror Text reverses the character order and substitutes mirror-image forms where Unicode provides them, so the reflection reads normally — the writing Leonardo used in his notebooks and ambulances carry across the bonnet.
- What it does
- Creates text that reads correctly in a mirror
- You give it
- A word, phrase or message
- You get back
- Mirror writing, ready to paste
- Best for
- Puzzles, art projects and novelty text
About the Mirror Text
Mirror writing is what Leonardo da Vinci used in his notebooks and what an ambulance has across its bonnet: text reversed so that its reflection reads normally. It is a different operation from flipping text upside down, and needs different characters.
The tool reverses the order of the characters and substitutes each letter for a mirror-image equivalent where Unicode provides one. Some letters are naturally symmetrical — A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X, Y — and need no substitution at all, which is why a mirrored word made only of those letters looks identical. Brackets, quotation marks and slashes are swapped for their counterparts, which is what makes the reflection convincing.
Key features of the Mirror Text
Symmetrical letters left alone
A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X and Y mirror into themselves, so substituting them would be wrong.
Brackets and slashes swapped
The detail that makes a reflection convincing rather than subtly broken.
Two axes
Horizontal for a normal mirror, vertical for a reflection in water.
Distinguished from flipping
The page explains why mirroring and rotating are different operations needing different characters.
Plain Unicode output
It pastes into any field, with no formatting required.
How to use the Mirror Text
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Type your text
A word, a phrase or a message.
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Choose the mirror axis
Horizontal for a normal mirror, or vertical for a reflection in water.
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Check it in a mirror
Hold the screen up to one — the point of mirror writing is that the reflection reads normally.
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Copy the result
Plain Unicode, so it pastes anywhere.
Frequently asked questions
Upside down text is rotated 180 degrees; mirror text is reflected across a vertical axis. They produce different results and need different substitute characters, though both reverse the character order.
Because they are already symmetrical. A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X and Y look the same mirrored, so no substitution is needed — which is why some words mirror into themselves.
Nobody knows for certain. The likeliest explanation is practical: he was left-handed, and writing right to left avoided smudging wet ink with his hand. Secrecy is the popular theory and the weaker one.
The reversal always works. The mirrored letter substitutes come from several Unicode blocks, and a few have patchier device support, so preview before publishing.
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