What is Wingdings 2?
Wingdings 2 is a companion dingbat font to the original Wingdings. It was developed in 1990 by Type Solutions, Inc. and is now owned by Microsoft, which distributed it with Microsoft Office up to Office 2010 and with other Microsoft products. Where Wingdings is a grab bag of hands, mail and office objects, Wingdings 2 leans toward practical marks: pens and pencils, pointing hands, check boxes, ballot crosses, decorative leaves, and two complete sets of numbered circles.
The same keyboard key gives a completely different symbol than in Wingdings. “Hello” becomes đ ī¸đī¸âĸī¸âĸī¸âĨī¸ in Wingdings 2, but âī¸âī¸âī¸âī¸âĄī¸ in the original font. That is why a Wingdings 2 message must be decoded with Wingdings 2.
Wingdings 2 alphabet
Lower case letters from i to ~ hold the numbered circles: i is a circled zero and j to s are â to âŠ, then t to ~ repeat 0 to 10 as white numbers on black circles. Capital O to V contain the ballot marks and check boxes that make this font useful for forms.
| Key | Symbol | Code point | Unicode name |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | đī¸ | U+1F59B | Sideways Black Right Pointing Index |
| B | đī¸ | U+1F448 | White Left Pointing Backhand Index |
| C | đī¸ | U+1F449 | White Right Pointing Backhand Index |
| D | đī¸ | U+1F59C | Black Left Pointing Backhand Index |
| E | đī¸ | U+1F59D | Black Right Pointing Backhand Index |
| F | đī¸ | U+1F59E | Sideways White Up Pointing Index |
| G | đī¸ | U+1F59F | Sideways White Down Pointing Index |
| H | đ ī¸ | U+1F5A0 | Sideways Black Up Pointing Index |
| I | đĄī¸ | U+1F5A1 | Sideways Black Down Pointing Index |
| J | đī¸ | U+1F446 | White Up Pointing Backhand Index |
| K | đī¸ | U+1F447 | White Down Pointing Backhand Index |
| L | đĸī¸ | U+1F5A2 | Black Up Pointing Backhand Index |
| M | đŖī¸ | U+1F5A3 | Black Down Pointing Backhand Index |
| N | đī¸ | U+1F591 | Reversed Raised Hand With Fingers Splayed |
| O | đ´ī¸ | U+1F5F4 | Ballot Script X |
| P | đ¸ī¸ | U+1F5F8 | Light Check Mark |
| Q | đĩī¸ | U+1F5F5 | Ballot Box With Script X |
| R | âī¸ | U+2611 | Ballot Box With Check |
| S | âŽŊī¸ | U+2BBD | Ballot Box With Light X |
| T | âī¸ | U+2612 | Ballot Box With X |
| U | âŽžī¸ | U+2BBE | Circled X |
| V | âŽŋī¸ | U+2BBF | Circled Bold X |
| W | đī¸ | U+1F6C7 | Prohibited Sign |
| X | âĻ¸ī¸ | U+29B8 | Circled Reverse Solidus |
| Y | đąī¸ | U+1F671 | Heavy Script Ligature Et Ornament |
| Z | đ´ī¸ | U+1F674 | Heavy Ampersand Ornament |
| a | đĻī¸ | U+1F666 | Heavy North East Pointing Bud |
| b | đ¤ī¸ | U+1F664 | Heavy North West Pointing Bud |
| c | đĨī¸ | U+1F665 | Heavy South West Pointing Bud |
| d | đ§ī¸ | U+1F667 | Heavy South East Pointing Bud |
| e | đī¸ | U+1F65A | North East Pointing Vine Leaf |
| f | đī¸ | U+1F658 | North West Pointing Vine Leaf |
| g | đī¸ | U+1F659 | South West Pointing Vine Leaf |
| h | đī¸ | U+1F65B | South East Pointing Vine Leaf |
| i | âĒī¸ | U+24EA | Circled Digit Zero |
| j | â ī¸ | U+2460 | Circled Digit One |
| k | âĄī¸ | U+2461 | Circled Digit Two |
| l | âĸī¸ | U+2462 | Circled Digit Three |
| m | âŖī¸ | U+2463 | Circled Digit Four |
| n | â¤ī¸ | U+2464 | Circled Digit Five |
| o | âĨī¸ | U+2465 | Circled Digit Six |
| p | âĻī¸ | U+2466 | Circled Digit Seven |
| q | â§ī¸ | U+2467 | Circled Digit Eight |
| r | â¨ī¸ | U+2468 | Circled Digit Nine |
| s | âŠī¸ | U+2469 | Circled Number Ten |
| t | âŋī¸ | U+24FF | Negative Circled Digit Zero |
| u | âļī¸ | U+2776 | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit One |
| v | âˇī¸ | U+2777 | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Two |
| w | â¸ī¸ | U+2778 | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Three |
| x | âšī¸ | U+2779 | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Four |
| y | âēī¸ | U+277A | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Five |
| z | âģī¸ | U+277B | Dingbat Negative Circled Digit Six |
What Wingdings 2 is good for
- Check lists and forms: R gives a ballot box with a check âī¸ and T a box with an X âī¸.
- Numbered steps: circled numbers such as â ī¸âĄī¸âĸī¸ look tidy in instructions and slides.
- Editing marks: pens, pencils and pointing hands for notes and annotations.
- Puzzles with a twist: most people only know the original Wingdings, so a Wingdings 2 clue is harder to guess.
Need the whole set at once? The Wingdings 2 character map lets you copy any single symbol.
Other translators
- Wingdings TranslatorEnglish to Wingdings and back
- Wingdings to EnglishPaste symbols, read the message
- Wingdings 3 TranslatorArrows and triangles
- Webdings TranslatorPicture symbols from 1997
- Gaster TranslatorWrite like W. D. Gaster from Undertale
- Wingdings ChartEvery symbol with its key and code point
- Wingdings Alt CodesAlt+0252 and every other code