Strikethrough Text Generator — Cross Out & Copy Text (Free)
3 styles for strikethrough
15 characters (graphemes) · 15 Unicode code points · 15 UTF-16 units
H̶e̶l̶l̶o̶ W̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ 1̶2̶3̶
15 characters (graphemes) · 28 Unicode code points · 28 UTF-16 units
Compatibility: partial, inferred from Unicode properties and font dependencies. No app or device test is implied.
Strikethrough Text
Strikethrough adds a combining overlay after each eligible base character. It does not delete the underlying text or hide information.
| Style | Generated sample |
|---|---|
| Strikethrough | H̶e̶l̶l̶o̶ 1̶2̶3̶ |
| Slashed | H̷e̷l̷l̷o̷ 1̷2̷3̷ |
What the Line Contains
The main style adds U+0336 COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY. Thus A̶ contains A plus one combining mark. A five-letter ASCII word gains five marks, although a grapheme counter can still see five graphemes. The slash overlay crosses diagonally; the underline comparison puts its mark below the text.
Native Formatting or Unicode?
Discord supports native ~~text~~ formatting in messages. WhatsApp uses ~text~ in message formatting. Native formatting changes presentation; Unicode overlays change the stored sequence. The resulting line need not look identical across fonts.
Corrections and Privacy
For an illustrative correction, put the replacement in ordinary text beside the crossed-out phrase. Do not use strikethrough to redact a secret: the original letters remain copyable, searchable depending on the system, and potentially readable by assistive technology. Some fields reject or normalize marks.
Punctuation Gets Crossed Out Too
The engine does not limit an overlay to alphabetic characters. Converting A! 9 with Strikethrough produces A̶!̶ 9̶: A, the exclamation mark and 9 each receive a mark, while the ordinary space stays bare. This four-grapheme sample contains seven code points and seven UTF-16 units.
The selector's three options append these marks after the original base:
| Option | Added code point |
|---|---|
| Strikethrough | U+0336 |
| Slashed | U+0337 |
| Underline | U+0332 |
The slash and underline entries are comparisons with different mark placement. None replaces the base with a special crossed-out letter. Tabs and line breaks also pass through unchanged, so the converter does not draw one continuous stroke across a multiline phrase.
An existing accent survives the operation. For an e followed by a combining acute accent, the output sequence is U+0065 + U+0336 + U+0301: the original e, the newly inserted stroke, then the original accent. Reconstructing the input therefore requires distinguishing added decoration from accents that were already present.
Before You Paste
Combining strokes can be clipped or misplaced after paste; keep the correction readable without relying on the line alone.