Which characters are escaped?

Per the JSON spec: double quote ("), backslash (\), and control characters U+0000–U+001F. Newline becomes \n, tab becomes \t, carriage return becomes \r.

Should I wrap the output in quotes?

The tool outputs the escaped string content only, without surrounding quotes. Add your own double quotes if you're composing a JSON string manually.

JSON Escape / Unescape

Escapes raw text for embedding inside a JSON string value — replacing backslashes, double quotes, newlines, tabs, and control characters with their \n, \t, \" equivalents. Also unescapes JSON string content back to raw text. Useful when building JSON manually, inserting code snippets into API payloads, or debugging JSON parse errors.

Escape for JSONUnescape JSON string

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Escaped (for JSON)

Paste your text to escape it for JSON, or paste a JSON string value to unescape it.

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