How it works
Turn a name into symbols here: each letter becomes a sign whose Unicode name starts with that letter, so A is an anchor and C is a cloud. It is this site's own key, not an old alphabet and not a translation.
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Two keys, one name
Type a name in the box and both rows answer. The first key uses plain signs, so Sophie becomes ❄︎✭✏︎❤︎∞✉︎. The second key uses pictures, and the same name is 🍓🐙🐧🐎🍨🐘. Capitals and small letters give the same sign, and a digit becomes a clock at that hour. Press Copy on the row you want.
From name to symbols, and back
The key under the tool lists every sign beside its letter, with the Unicode name that earned it the place: Heavy black heart for H, Umbrella for U. Send the page along with the row and a friend can read the name back.
- Turning two names into symbols? Put a space between them. The space stays, so the names stay apart.
- Picking symbols for a name tag or a bio? The first key stays plain beside text, and the second is brighter.
Questions and answers
Is this a real symbol alphabet?
No. No old alphabet gives each letter a sign like this. It is this site's own key, built on one rule: the sign's Unicode name starts with the letter. K is a keyboard, S a snowflake, U an umbrella.
Is it the same as a symbol font?
No. A symbol font draws a picture for each key, but the text underneath is still the letters, and they come back when the font changes. Here each letter becomes another character, so the row stays symbols wherever it is pasted.
Why are Q and Z the odd ones out?
No emoji has a name that starts with Q, so the second key uses a maths sign there, Questioned equal to. For Z the plain signs are specialist marks, so both keys use a picture: a zipper-mouth face and a zebra.
Will the symbols show on every phone?
Most will. The plain signs have been in Unicode since version 5.2 of October 2009 or earlier. The newest picture is the x-ray, from version 14.0 of September 2021, and a phone with older fonts may show a box in its place.