diff --git a/src/main/java/strman/Strman.java b/src/main/java/strman/Strman.java
index 47834f9..b54d39b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/strman/Strman.java
+++ b/src/main/java/strman/Strman.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.StringJoiner;
 import java.util.function.Predicate;
 import java.util.function.Supplier;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
 import static java.util.stream.Collectors.joining;
 
@@ -329,10 +330,29 @@ public abstract class Strman {
         validate(value, NULL_STRING_PREDICATE, NULL_STRING_MSG_SUPPLIER);
         return Arrays
                 .stream(value.split("(?<=\\G.{16})"))
-                .map(data -> String.valueOf(Character.toChars(Integer.parseInt(data,2))))
+                .map(data -> String.valueOf(Character.toChars(Integer.parseInt(data, 2))))
                 .collect(joining());
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Convert string chars to binary unicode (16 digits)
+     *
+     * @param value The value to encode
+     * @return String in binary format
+     */
+    public static String binEncode(final String value) {
+        validate(value, NULL_STRING_PREDICATE, NULL_STRING_MSG_SUPPLIER);
+        return value.chars().mapToObj(ch -> leftPad(Integer.toBinaryString(ch), "0", 16)).collect(joining());
+    }
+
+    public static String leftPad(String value, String pad, int length) {
+        validate(value, NULL_STRING_PREDICATE, NULL_STRING_MSG_SUPPLIER);
+        if (value.length() >= length) {
+            return value;
+        }
+        return append(Stream.generate(() -> pad).limit(length - value.length()).collect(joining()), value);
+    }
+
 
     private static long countSubstr(String value, String subStr, boolean allowOverlapping, long count) {
         int position = value.indexOf(subStr);
diff --git a/src/test/java/strman/StrmanTest.java b/src/test/java/strman/StrmanTest.java
index 90993fc..0cb6432 100644
--- a/src/test/java/strman/StrmanTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/strman/StrmanTest.java
@@ -270,10 +270,17 @@ public class StrmanTest {
                 binDecode("000000000111001100000000011101000000000001110010000000000110110100000000011000010000000001101110"),
                 equalTo("strman"));
 
-        assertThat(binDecode("0110111100100010"),equalTo("漢"));
-        assertThat(binDecode("0000000001000001"),equalTo("A"));
-        assertThat(binDecode("0000000011000001"),equalTo("Á"));
-        assertThat(binDecode("00000000010000010000000001000001"),equalTo("AA"));
+        assertThat(binDecode("0110111100100010"), equalTo("漢"));
+        assertThat(binDecode("0000000001000001"), equalTo("A"));
+        assertThat(binDecode("0000000011000001"), equalTo("Á"));
+        assertThat(binDecode("00000000010000010000000001000001"), equalTo("AA"));
+    }
 
+    @Test
+    public void binEncode_shouldEncodeAStringToBinaryFormat() throws Exception {
+        assertThat(binEncode("漢"), equalTo("0110111100100010"));
+        assertThat(binEncode("A"), equalTo("0000000001000001"));
+        assertThat(binEncode("Á"), equalTo("0000000011000001"));
+        assertThat(binEncode("AA"), equalTo("00000000010000010000000001000001"));
     }
 }
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