What does this tool convert?

It converts Unicode text to readable ASCII, including accented Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Chinese text.

How are accented letters handled?

Accents and other Latin diacritics are removed, so é becomes e and Å becomes A.

How is Chinese transliterated?

Chinese characters are converted to pinyin, with polyphonic characters handled according to their context where supported.

What happens to emojis and symbols?

By default, non-translatable emojis and symbols are dropped. You can choose to keep them as-is.

Will the output always be pure ASCII?

Yes when non-translatable characters are dropped. Keeping unknown characters can leave non-ASCII characters in the output.

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Unicode → ASCII Transliterator

Convert any Unicode text to plain ASCII: strip accents (é→e, ñ→n), romanize Cyrillic/Greek, and transliterate Chinese to pinyin (北京→Bei Jing). Drops emojis and symbols that have no ASCII equivalent.

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What this tool helps you do

A lossy-but-readable conversion from full Unicode to 7-bit ASCII. Latin combining marks are stripped (Façade→Facade, Ångström→Angstrom), non-Latin scripts are romanized (Привет→Privet, Αθήνα→Athina), and Chinese characters are converted to pinyin via pinyin-pro with correct polyphone handling (重庆→chong qing). Japanese kanji come out at pinyin grade since true romaji requires a morphological dictionary. Useful for building ASCII-only filenames, search indexes, slug precursors, legacy-system data entry, and cleaning copy-pasted text that carries invisible Unicode. Shows a before/after non-ASCII count so you can confirm the result is pure ASCII.

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2 examples

Mixed Latin diacritics + Chinese + Cyrillic

Transliterate a mixed-script string "Café 北京 Привет" to ASCII — accented Latin stripped, Chinese to pinyin, Cyrillic romanized.

{
  "type": "html"
}

Chinese polyphone: 重庆 → chong qing

Chinese text with a polyphonic character (重 is usually "zhong" but here "chong"). pinyin-pro handles it correctly.

{
  "type": "html"
}

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Unicode → ASCII Transliterator

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1. Convert mixed-script text for a legacy field

2. Resolve a Chinese polyphone in a search index

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