diff --git a/render/json.go b/render/json.go
index 2f98676c..d5ae54d0 100644
--- a/render/json.go
+++ b/render/json.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"html/template"
 	"net/http"
 	"unicode"
+	"unicode/utf16"
 
 	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin/codec/json"
 	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin/internal/bytesconv"
@@ -160,14 +161,22 @@ func (r AsciiJSON) Render(w http.ResponseWriter) error {
 	}
 
 	var buffer bytes.Buffer
-	escapeBuf := make([]byte, 0, 6) // Preallocate 6 bytes for Unicode escape sequences
+	escapeBuf := make([]byte, 0, 12) // Preallocate 12 bytes: worst case is a \uXXXX\uXXXX surrogate pair
 
 	for _, r := range bytesconv.BytesToString(ret) {
-		if r > unicode.MaxASCII {
+		switch {
+		case r <= unicode.MaxASCII:
+			buffer.WriteByte(byte(r))
+		case r <= 0xFFFF:
 			escapeBuf = fmt.Appendf(escapeBuf[:0], "\\u%04x", r) // Reuse escapeBuf
 			buffer.Write(escapeBuf)
-		} else {
-			buffer.WriteByte(byte(r))
+		default:
+			// Code points outside the Basic Multilingual Plane don't fit in a
+			// single 4-hex-digit \u escape; RFC 8259 §7 requires encoding them
+			// as a UTF-16 surrogate pair instead.
+			r1, r2 := utf16.EncodeRune(r)
+			escapeBuf = fmt.Appendf(escapeBuf[:0], "\\u%04x\\u%04x", r1, r2)
+			buffer.Write(escapeBuf)
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/render/render_test.go b/render/render_test.go
index f63878b9..4cfe3925 100644
--- a/render/render_test.go
+++ b/render/render_test.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 package render
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"encoding/xml"
 	"errors"
 	"html/template"
@@ -261,6 +262,23 @@ func TestRenderAsciiJSON(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, "3.1415926", w2.Body.String())
 }
 
+func TestRenderAsciiJSONNonBMP(t *testing.T) {
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	data := map[string]any{"msg": "😀"}
+
+	err := (AsciiJSON{data}).Render(w)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// U+1F600 is outside the Basic Multilingual Plane and must be encoded as
+	// a UTF-16 surrogate pair (RFC 8259 §7), not a single \u escape with 5+
+	// hex digits.
+	assert.JSONEq(t, "{\"msg\":\"\\ud83d\\ude00\"}", w.Body.String())
+
+	var decoded map[string]string
+	require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal(w.Body.Bytes(), &decoded))
+	assert.Equal(t, "😀", decoded["msg"])
+}
+
 func TestRenderAsciiJSONFail(t *testing.T) {
 	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
 	data := make(chan int)