Strikethrough Text Generator

About strikethrough text generator

Strikethrough here uses the Unicode combining long stroke overlay (U+0336) on top of each letter, digit, or space you type. It works anywhere plain text travels, even when rich-text editors hide formatting menus.

This is not the same as wrapping words in tilde delimiters for Markdown. Those delimiters disappear after rendering, while our output literally contains combiners between characters. Some apps flatten them; others draw a continuous line.

Accent letters keep their base character; the stroke sits on the cluster as a whole depending on shaping. If you need legal proofreading marks, prefer the native editor strikethrough where reviewers can toggle it.

Pairing strikethrough with underline or zalgo quickly reduces clarity. The related underline tool uses a different combiner (U+0332) beneath the glyph. Choose one effect per headline so readers can still parse words.

Because combiners increase byte length, very long jokes may hit paste limits in SMS or game chat. Keep strike gags concise.

A correction in a bio, with the real fact in plain letters

Instagram’s biography has no strikethrough button. U+0336 is how a crossed-out word survives the paste: “former barista” with a line through “former”, or an old price next to the current one. The current fact has to be plain and after the struck word. People skim bios. A line through the only copy of your hours means some visitors think you are closed and some do not see the line at all. Write “open sunday” in plain letters. Strike the old day on the side if you enjoy the joke.

Each base character plus U+0336 is two code points. A counter that counts code points or UTF-16 units will charge about double for the struck span. The biography’s 150-character budget disappears if you strike a whole paragraph. Strike one word. The @username cannot store combining marks. Do not build a handle that depends on a line through it. The Name field may keep the marks and then show a struck name in search results, which looks like the account was deleted. Keep the Name plain.

Instagram has historically dropped combining marks from bios and from comments, sometimes after a delay, sometimes immediately. When that happens you do not get a box. You get the original letters back, unstruck, because the base character was never replaced. That is the opposite of a Fraktur failure. If you save the bio and the line vanishes, the app stripped the combiner. The words are still the words you typed. If the line stays, you still need the plain version of anything important, because a follower’s client may strip it even when yours does not.

Slash, the other column, uses U+0338, the combining long solidus. It reads as a cancellation mark more than a clean rule. Use it for a “no” stamped on a short word. It is easier to miss than the long stroke, and it stacks badly on tall letters. Pick one overlay.

TikTok strips marks, and the nickname is the wrong place to learn that

A TikTok nickname with U+0336 often saves as the plain letters. The app sanitizes combining characters on the way into the name field. You will not see boxes. You will see your nickname without a line, which means the joke never shipped. Check after you tap Save, then leave the nickname plain. Put the struck word in a caption, and check the posted video, not the composer. Captions sometimes keep a short run of combiners and sometimes flatten them when the video is transcoded or re-opened in the app.

The @ ID will not keep the mark. A comment is the disposable test. Post “sold” with a line through it as a reply. If the reply shows the line on your phone, ask someone on Android to look, because the mark can be kept in the data and still not drawn. A font that does not render U+0336 shows the plain letter with no line and no box. Viewers think you forgot to strike it. You did not. Their font ignored the combiner. There is no rectangle to screenshot, which makes the bug harder to explain. Keep the real status in unstruck letters in the same caption so the ignored line does not matter.

Heavy stacking — strike plus underline plus more marks — is what triggers TikTok’s sanitizer even when a single mark would have survived. One overlay. A few letters. Not a paragraph.

WhatsApp: the line through a word you no longer mean

WhatsApp is the app where U+0336 most often draws, because chat bubbles use the system font and the system font on current phones knows the long stroke. The natural use is a self-correction inside one bubble: a time you replaced, a word you want visible as retracted. Write the replacement in the same bubble, unstruck, after the struck word. People who do not see the line still read the replacement. People who see the line get the joke and the fact.

Do not strike a phone number or a one-time code. Some clients keep the base digits and drop the mark, so the “cancelled” number is a live number. Some clients keep both, and a person long-presses the bubble and copies a string full of combiners into the dialer, which then fails or misdials. Send “ignore this number” as words. Leave the digits you still mean completely plain, in their own message, with no overlay anywhere near them.

Length is the quiet cost. A GSM SMS falls back to a short segment size once non-ASCII appears, and each combiner is non-ASCII. A struck sentence forwarded out of WhatsApp into SMS can split into several segments or get truncated. Inside WhatsApp itself the limit is high enough for a short correction. The About line is not. A struck About truncates in the chat list at an arbitrary combiner boundary and can show a dangling stroke on the last visible letter. Leave About unstruck.

WhatsApp Web usually draws U+0336 on a current desktop. When it does not, you see clean letters, not boxes. Trust the phone. Slash overlays are spottier than the long stroke. If the solidus does not show, switch the word to the long-stroke column rather than adding a second mark.

Strip, ignore, box

Three outcomes, and only one of them is a rectangle. Stripping returns your plain spelling. Ignoring the mark leaves the spelling and omits the line. A box is rare for U+0336 itself and more likely if you also swapped the base letters into a fancy alphabet. These apps stay Unknown on our compatibility page until a device pass exists. If the fact matters, the unstruck copy is the one you stand behind.

FancyTextHub never uploads the characters you type. Transformation happens entirely in your browser, which keeps drafts private but also means we cannot see how a remote server will sanitize your paste. When a network strips unsupported code points, the fallback is always your original plain string. Re-copy from the tool after you change options so the clipboard matches what you see in the preview cards. If you plan to reuse the same phrase across several apps, save a plain-text backup in your notes app so you can recover quickly when one client rejects the styled variant.

When in doubt, paste a short sample into the destination field first, keep a plain-text backup, and read the compatibility notes before you commit to a styled display name.