diff --git a/render/json.go b/render/json.go
index 2f98676c..5f132a8a 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"
@@ -160,11 +161,20 @@ 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, 13) // Preallocate for worst case: two \uXXXX surrogate pair escapes
 
 	for _, r := range bytesconv.BytesToString(ret) {
 		if r > unicode.MaxASCII {
-			escapeBuf = fmt.Appendf(escapeBuf[:0], "\\u%04x", r) // Reuse escapeBuf
+			if r > 0xFFFF {
+				// Non-BMP character (above U+FFFF): encode as a UTF-16 surrogate pair.
+				// A JSON \u escape is exactly 4 hex digits, so code points requiring more
+				// than 4 digits must be split into a high/low surrogate pair per RFC 8259 §7.
+				high, low := utf16.EncodeRune(r)
+				escapeBuf = fmt.Appendf(escapeBuf[:0], "\\u%04x\\u%04x", high, low)
+			} else {
+				// BMP character (U+0080–U+FFFF): a single \uXXXX escape suffices.
+				escapeBuf = fmt.Appendf(escapeBuf[:0], "\\u%04x", r)
+			}
 			buffer.Write(escapeBuf)
 		} else {
 			buffer.WriteByte(byte(r))
diff --git a/render/render_test.go b/render/render_test.go
index f63878b9..c35ed757 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 +262,36 @@ func TestRenderAsciiJSON(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, "3.1415926", w2.Body.String())
 }
 
+func TestRenderAsciiJSONNonBMP(t *testing.T) {
+	// Non-BMP characters (code points above U+FFFF) must be encoded as UTF-16
+	// surrogate pairs in JSON \u escapes (RFC 8259 §7). Previously, AsciiJSON
+	// emitted a single \uXXXXX escape with 5+ hex digits, which is syntactically
+	// valid JSON but silently decodes to the wrong character.
+	inputs := []string{
+		"\U0001F600", // U+1F600 GRINNING FACE
+		"\U0001F602", // U+1F602 FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY
+		"\U0001F680", // U+1F680 ROCKET
+		"\U00020000", // U+20000 CJK Extension B
+	}
+	for _, input := range inputs {
+		w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+		err := (AsciiJSON{input}).Render(w)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+
+		body := w.Body.String()
+
+		// Output must be pure ASCII.
+		for i, b := range []byte(body) {
+			assert.Less(t, b, byte(128), "non-ASCII byte at index %d in rendered output for input %q", i, input)
+		}
+
+		// Round-trip: json.Unmarshal must recover the original string.
+		var decoded string
+		require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal([]byte(body), &decoded), "input %q", input)
+		assert.Equal(t, input, decoded, "round-trip failed for %q", input)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestRenderAsciiJSONFail(t *testing.T) {
 	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
 	data := make(chan int)