diff --git a/crates/js-sys/src/lib.rs b/crates/js-sys/src/lib.rs
index 85fcab47ce7..840d7fdfe66 100644
--- a/crates/js-sys/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/js-sys/src/lib.rs
@@ -3522,6 +3522,22 @@ impl JsString {
             None
         }
     }
+
+    /// Returns whether this string is a valid UTF-16 string.
+    ///
+    /// This is useful for learning whether `as_string()` will return a lossless
+    /// representation of the JS string. If this string contains lone surrogates
+    /// then `as_string()` will succeed but it will be a lossy representation of
+    /// the JS string because lone surrogates will become replacement
+    /// characters.
+    ///
+    /// If this function returns `false` then to get a lossless representation
+    /// of the string you'll need to manually use `char_code_at` accessor to
+    /// access the raw code points.
+    pub fn is_valid_utf16(&self) -> bool {
+        let iter = (0..self.length()).map(|i| self.char_code_at(i) as u16);
+        std::char::decode_utf16(iter).all(|i| i.is_ok())
+    }
 }
 
 impl PartialEq<str> for JsString {
diff --git a/crates/js-sys/tests/wasm/JsString.rs b/crates/js-sys/tests/wasm/JsString.rs
index bb4a6ac0510..c7f229f1613 100644
--- a/crates/js-sys/tests/wasm/JsString.rs
+++ b/crates/js-sys/tests/wasm/JsString.rs
@@ -541,3 +541,15 @@ fn raw() {
     );
     assert!(JsString::raw_0(&JsValue::null().unchecked_into()).is_err());
 }
+
+#[wasm_bindgen_test]
+fn is_valid_utf16() {
+    assert!(JsString::from("a").is_valid_utf16());
+    assert!(JsString::from("").is_valid_utf16());
+    assert!(JsString::from("🥑").is_valid_utf16());
+    assert!(JsString::from("Why hello there this, 🥑, is 🥑 and is 🥑").is_valid_utf16());
+
+    assert!(JsString::from_char_code1(0x00).is_valid_utf16());
+    assert!(!JsString::from_char_code1(0xd800).is_valid_utf16());
+    assert!(!JsString::from_char_code1(0xdc00).is_valid_utf16());
+}
diff --git a/guide/src/reference/types/str.md b/guide/src/reference/types/str.md
index 999bbc183f9..740e3d8b15d 100644
--- a/guide/src/reference/types/str.md
+++ b/guide/src/reference/types/str.md
@@ -20,3 +20,24 @@ with handles to JavaScript string values, use the `js_sys::JsString` type.
 ```js
 {{#include ../../../../examples/guide-supported-types-examples/str.js}}
 ```
+
+## UTF-16 vs UTF-8
+
+Strings in JavaScript are by default encoded as if they're almost UTF-16. They
+may, however, contain lone surrogates (only one element of a two-u16 pair to
+create one unicode code point).
+
+When passing a string to Rust from JS the `TextEncoder` API will be used to
+convert between utf-16 and utf-8. If there are no lone surrogates then both
+strings will be equivalent in terms of the unicode code point sequences they
+describe.
+
+If the JS string has a lone surrogate, however, then the `TextEncoder`
+implementation will replace lone surrogates with a unicode replacement
+character. This means that the string Rust receives is a lossy representation of
+the string in JS.
+
+If you want to guarantee a lossless representation of the JS string in
+Rust it's recommended you use `js_sys::JsString` as an argument type, and then
+afterwards use `js_sys::JsString::is_valid_utf16_string` to determine whether
+the string can be losslessly represented as `String` in Rust.
diff --git a/guide/src/reference/types/string.md b/guide/src/reference/types/string.md
index 568e20b63e1..3b846704abf 100644
--- a/guide/src/reference/types/string.md
+++ b/guide/src/reference/types/string.md
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Copies the string's contents back and forth between the JavaScript
 garbage-collected heap and the Wasm linear memory with `TextDecoder` and
 `TextEncoder`
 
+> **Note**: Be sure to check out the [documentation for `str`](str.html) to
+> learn about some caveats when working with strings between JS and Rust.
+
 ## Example Rust Usage
 
 ```rust
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 0cd5034b812..10d1ab23d65 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -260,6 +260,27 @@ impl JsValue {
     ///
     /// If this JS value is not an instance of a string or if it's not valid
     /// utf-8 then this returns `None`.
+    ///
+    /// # UTF-16 vs UTF-8
+    ///
+    /// Strings in JavaScript are by default encoded as if they're almost
+    /// UTF-16. They may, however, contain lone surrogates (only one element of
+    /// a two-u16 pair to create one unicode code point).
+    ///
+    /// If the `JsValue` is a string, then `TextEncoder` will be used to convert
+    /// between utf-16 and utf-8. If there are no lone surrogates then both
+    /// strings will be equivalent in terms of the unicode code point sequences
+    /// they describe.
+    ///
+    /// If the JS string has a lone surrogate, however, then this function will
+    /// still return `Some`. The `TextEncoder` implementation will replace lone
+    /// surrogates with a unicode replacement character.
+    ///
+    /// If you want to guarantee a lossless representation of the JS string in
+    /// Rust it's recommended you use `js_sys::JsString::is_valid_utf16_string`.
+    /// If that returns `true` then this function is lossless. If that function
+    /// returns `false` then this function is lossy and you'll need to access
+    /// the raw u16 values instead.
     #[cfg(feature = "std")]
     pub fn as_string(&self) -> Option<String> {
         unsafe {