StrikethroughText Generator

Each style adds a combining mark after every character. A combining mark is a Unicode character that draws on top of the one before it, the same way an accent sits on é. Strikethrough uses U+0336 (a long stroke), underline uses U+0332 (a low line) and overline uses U+0305.

The mark goes after spaces too, so the line runs unbroken across the whole phrase instead of stopping between words.

A line through text says “this changed” at a glance:

• An old price next to a new one in a sale post.
• A joke self-edit, like “I'm o̶b̶s̶e̶s̶s̶e̶d̶ mildly interested”.
• Ticking off a list in a story or a pinned post.
• Showing a correction openly instead of deleting it.

Every character gets an extra mark, so lined text uses about twice as many characters. That matters for limits like Instagram's 150-character bio or a 280-character post on X.

How neat the line looks depends on the font of the app you paste into. On most phones it's a clean line; in some fonts it can look broken or sit a little high. Screen readers usually ignore the marks or read them out one by one, so the meaning of a crossed-out word can get lost.

Some apps have their own: in WhatsApp and Slack, put tildes around a word (~text~). In Discord and Reddit, use two tildes (~~text~~), and in Discord two underscores (__text__) underline. Built-in formatting is easier for screen readers, so use it where it's available.