Reverse Text

Reversing text means flipping the order of its characters end to end, so "hello" becomes "olleh." This tool spreads the input into an array of Unicode code points before reversing, rather than reversing the raw string directly — a distinction that matters for text containing emoji or characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, which JavaScript strings represent internally as surrogate pairs. A naive character-by-character string reversal can split those pairs apart and corrupt the character; iterating by code point keeps each visual character intact even when reversed.

Character reversal is different from word reversal (which would turn "quick brown fox" into "fox brown quick" while keeping each word spelled normally) — this tool reverses at the individual character level, so words become unreadable mirror images of themselves rather than simply reordered.

People use this for generating palindrome checks, creating novelty mirrored text for social media, or reverse-engineering simple text obfuscation where a message was deliberately written backwards.

The text is split into Unicode code points and reversed, so emoji and characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane stay intact. Reversing raw JavaScript string units would split those characters into broken halves.

Combined characters, such as an e followed by a combining accent, or multi-part emoji, can still separate, because they are several code points. Reversed text is useful for puzzles, palindrome checks and quick data transformations.