How it works
This mirror text generator flips each letter to face left, and a second row also runs the line backwards, as a mirror would. Unicode names 20 of its 53 characters reversed. Some apps strip or block these characters, and screen readers may read them badly.
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Two rows, two kinds of backwards
The large card, Flip each letter, turns every letter where it stands, so the line still reads left to right. Mirrored, below it, also reverses the order: that is the AMBULANCE painted on the front of the van. One more flip, Upside down, stands the line on its head.
Why A, M and U stayed plain
Eleven capitals are their own mirror image, A, M and U among them, so they stay as typed. That is correct. G is the failure: Unicode has no capital reversed G, so it faces the wrong way. Digits stay too: no character is named a reversed digit.
- The reversed F and P are real letters from Roman inscriptions. Unicode's notes give reversed F as filia, daughter, and reversed P as puella, girl.
- Two rows draw B differently: the large card uses Lisu letter gha, a B facing left, and Mirrored a Canadian syllabics character with extra strokes.
- Hold the result up to a mirror to check it: the Mirrored row should read normally, give or take the near misses.
Questions and answers
Why is AMBULANCE written backwards on the front?
So that it reads correctly in a rear-view mirror. Wikipedia's article on mirror writing lists Leonardo da Vinci among its notable examples: he wrote most of his personal notes this way, for a purpose that remains unknown.
How do I type backwards letters to copy and paste?
Most are on no keyboard, so this page swaps them in. Each mirrored letter is a character, not a font, borrowed from elsewhere in Unicode: phonetic signs, Cyrillic and Lisu letters, two letters from Roman inscriptions. A device without one shows an empty box.
Is a text flipper or a flip text generator the same as a mirror one?
Flip can mean either. A mirror flips a line left to right, so b becomes d; upside down turns it half a circle, so b becomes q. Both rows also reverse the letter order. Only the large card keeps it.
What is a backwards d, a backwards b or a reverse R?
A backwards d is a plain b, and a backwards b is a plain d. A reversed capital R is Я, the Cyrillic letter ya, and a reversed E is Ǝ. The list under the tool covers every letter, gaps included.