diff --git a/crates/js-sys/src/lib.rs b/crates/js-sys/src/lib.rs
index 7593aa0f822..1ffadaa9500 100644
--- a/crates/js-sys/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/js-sys/src/lib.rs
@@ -3641,6 +3641,36 @@ impl JsString {
     ) -> impl ExactSizeIterator<Item = u16> + DoubleEndedIterator<Item = u16> + 'a {
         (0..self.length()).map(move |i| self.char_code_at(i) as u16)
     }
+
+    /// If this string consists of a single Unicode code point, then this method
+    /// converts it into a Rust `char` without doing any allocations.
+    ///
+    /// If this JS value is not a valid UTF-8 or consists of more than a single
+    /// codepoint, then this returns `None`.
+    ///
+    /// Note that a single Unicode code point might be represented as more than
+    /// one code unit on the JavaScript side. For example, a JavaScript string
+    /// `"\uD801\uDC37"` is actually a single Unicode code point U+10437 which
+    /// corresponds to a character '𐐷'.
+    pub fn as_char(&self) -> Option<char> {
+        let len = self.length();
+
+        if len == 0 || len > 2 {
+            return None;
+        }
+
+        // This will be simplified when definitions are fixed:
+        // https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/issues/1362
+        let cp = self.code_point_at(0).as_f64().unwrap_throw() as u32;
+
+        let c = std::char::from_u32(cp)?;
+
+        if c.len_utf16() as u32 == len {
+            Some(c)
+        } else {
+            None
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 impl PartialEq<str> for JsString {
@@ -3679,6 +3709,13 @@ impl From<String> for JsString {
     }
 }
 
+impl From<char> for JsString {
+    #[inline]
+    fn from(c: char) -> Self {
+        JsString::from_code_point1(c as u32).unwrap_throw()
+    }
+}
+
 impl<'a> From<&'a JsString> for String {
     fn from(s: &'a JsString) -> Self {
         s.obj.as_string().unwrap_throw()
diff --git a/crates/js-sys/tests/wasm/JsString.rs b/crates/js-sys/tests/wasm/JsString.rs
index c7f229f1613..d2b8505cc4e 100644
--- a/crates/js-sys/tests/wasm/JsString.rs
+++ b/crates/js-sys/tests/wasm/JsString.rs
@@ -553,3 +553,14 @@ fn is_valid_utf16() {
     assert!(!JsString::from_char_code1(0xd800).is_valid_utf16());
     assert!(!JsString::from_char_code1(0xdc00).is_valid_utf16());
 }
+
+#[wasm_bindgen_test]
+fn as_char() {
+    assert_eq!(JsString::from('a').as_char(), Some('a'));
+    assert_eq!(JsString::from('🥑').as_char(), Some('🥑'));
+    assert_eq!(JsString::from("").as_char(), None);
+    assert_eq!(JsString::from("ab").as_char(), None);
+    assert_eq!(JsString::from_char_code1(0xd800).as_char(), None);
+    assert_eq!(JsString::from_char_code1(0xdc00).as_char(), None);
+    assert_eq!(JsString::from_char_code1(0xdfff).as_char(), None);
+}