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Type any text below and get it crossed out with U+0336 (combining long stroke overlay), the Unicode mark that draws a horizontal line through every character — for edits, jokes, and Reddit-style strikethrough humor, without needing a font file installed.
Strikethrough text generated here is not a font. It is your original text with an extra Unicode character — U+0336, combining long stroke overlay — inserted after every visible character. U+0336 lives in the Combining Diacritical Marks block and instructs the system font to draw a horizontal line through the preceding glyph. So the word cat becomes c̶a̶t̶, which to the app is six code points (c, U+0336, a, U+0336, t, U+0336) rather than three. This is the same mechanism underline text uses, just with U+0336 instead of U+0332. The combining-mark approach works on every character, including digits, punctuation, and letters outside the Latin alphabet, and the cost is the same: it doubles the length of the text, since every visible character is followed by an invisible combining mark.
Discord chat, GitHub README, plain email, and form fields have no strikethrough button. Pasting crossed-out Unicode (l̶i̶k̶e̶ t̶h̶i̶s̶) works because each combining mark is just text — the line is drawn by the system font through the preceding character.
The crossed-out-then-corrected gag (I love Mondays — wait, no) reads naturally in Discord and chat apps. Strikethrough Unicode lets you do it in any text field, not just Markdown-enabled ones.
Unlike Mathematical Bold or Script, which only cover the Latin alphabet, U+0336 combines with anything — Cyrillic, Greek, digits, punctuation, even emoji. If the base character renders, the line renders through it.
GitHub, GitLab, Notion, and Discord render combining marks consistently. Crossed-out text in a PR description or pinned message reads clearly on desktop and mobile.
Every visible character in strikethrough output is two UTF-16 code units: the original character plus U+0336. Both sit in the BMP, so each is 1 unit — but a 20-character crossed-out word is 40 units, not 20. On platforms that count UTF-16 units (TikTok bios at 80 units, Twitter free tweets at 280), this halves how much text fits. On platforms that count grapheme clusters (Instagram bio at 150), the visible length is closer to the typed length, but the underlying byte count still doubles. Combining marks also affect editing: backspacing through crossed-out text removes the mark first, then the letter, so every character takes two keystrokes to delete. One rendering quirk worth knowing: on mobile Instagram, U+0336 sometimes renders above the character instead of through it, which makes the strikethrough look like an overscore. Discord, GitHub, and Notion render it correctly through the glyph.
Strikethrough Unicode renders on iOS 13+, Android 8+, modern Windows, macOS, and every major browser, with one quirk: on mobile Instagram, U+0336 sometimes renders above the character instead of through it, which makes the line look like an overscore. Discord is the most reliable platform — crossed-out text renders correctly in chat, channel names, and custom status on both desktop and mobile, and strikethrough humor is a Discord convention. GitHub renders it in README, issue, and PR bodies. Notion renders it in body text. TikTok accepts it in display names (30 chars) and bios (80 UTF-16 units), where the doubled unit cost bites — a 40-character crossed-out bio uses the full 80 units. Twitter/X renders it correctly in the timeline. Steam persona names render strikethrough inconsistently.
It is actually crossed out. The tool appends U+0336 (combining long stroke overlay) after every character, and the system font draws a horizontal line through the preceding glyph. You are not installing a font or applying formatting — you are pasting your original text plus an invisible combining mark that triggers the strikethrough.
Each visible character is followed by U+0336, so a 10-character crossed-out word is 20 code points. Both the letter and the combining mark sit in the BMP at 1 UTF-16 unit each, but the total still doubles. On TikTok (80 UTF-16 units per bio), a fully crossed-out bio fits roughly 40 visible characters.
Yes. Discord renders combining marks reliably in chat messages, channel names, and custom status on both desktop and mobile. Strikethrough humor — the crossed-out-then-corrected gag — is a Discord convention, and the Unicode version works even where Discord's own ~~Markdown~~ syntax isn't available.
On some mobile Instagram builds, U+0336 attaches slightly high and renders as a line above the character rather than through it. The combining mark is correct; the rendering engine positions it differently. Discord, GitHub, Notion, and desktop browsers render it through the glyph as intended.
Yes, if you put it in page titles, meta tags, or any text you want indexed. Search engines see the combining marks as extra characters and may not weight the text the same way. Use strikethrough Unicode for display (chat, captions, READMEs), not for SEO-critical content.
Yes, because U+0336 attaches to whatever character precedes it. You can paste bold or italic Unicode output back into the tool, or stack the marks manually. The result is visually heavy and uses more code units per character, so it eats into bio and caption budgets faster.
