diff --git a/docs/runtime/utils.mdx b/docs/runtime/utils.mdx
index c268b11418bc..4e570d4b37f0 100644
--- a/docs/runtime/utils.mdx
+++ b/docs/runtime/utils.mdx
@@ -322,12 +322,16 @@ Example usage:
 Bun.stringWidth("hello"); // => 5
 Bun.stringWidth("\u001b[31mhello\u001b[0m"); // => 5
 Bun.stringWidth("\u001b[31mhello\u001b[0m", { countAnsiEscapeCodes: true }); // => 12
+Bun.stringWidth("👨‍👩‍👧‍👦"); // => 2
+Bun.stringWidth("👨‍👩‍👧‍👦", { perCodePoint: true }); // => 8
 ```
 
 Use it to align text in a terminal or to check whether a string contains ANSI escape codes.
 
 The API matches the "string-width" npm package, so existing code can be ported to Bun and vice versa.
 
+By default, an emoji sequence (or any other grapheme cluster) is measured once, like `string-width` does. Pass `perCodePoint: true` to measure every code point individually instead, which is how Node.js measures strings when aligning `console.table` and `util.inspect` output. In that mode each emoji in a ZWJ sequence is counted, so the family emoji above measures 8 instead of 2. Use it when your output has to line up with output produced by Node.js. This option is specific to Bun: `string-width` has no equivalent, so code that uses it does not port back unchanged.
+
 [In this benchmark](https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/5147c0ba7379d85d4d1ed0714b84d6544af917eb/bench/snippets/string-width.mjs#L13), `Bun.stringWidth` is ~6,756x faster than the `string-width` npm package for input larger than about 500 characters. Big thanks to [sindresorhus](https://github.com/sindresorhus) for their work on `string-width`.
 
 ```ts
@@ -440,6 +444,17 @@ namespace Bun {
        * @default true
        */
       ambiguousIsNarrow?: boolean;
+      /**
+       * If `true`, measure every Unicode code point individually (East Asian
+       * Width plus emoji presentation, the algorithm Node.js uses for
+       * `console.table` and `util.inspect` alignment), so each member of an
+       * emoji ZWJ sequence is counted: `"👨‍👩‍👧‍👦"` measures 8. If `false`,
+       * emoji sequences and other grapheme clusters count once: `"👨‍👩‍👧‍👦"`
+       * measures 2.
+       *
+       * @default false
+       */
+      perCodePoint?: boolean;
     },
   ): number;
 }
diff --git a/test/js/bun/util/stringWidth.test.ts b/test/js/bun/util/stringWidth.test.ts
index bde985ac6c31..d2114e6a9150 100644
--- a/test/js/bun/util/stringWidth.test.ts
+++ b/test/js/bun/util/stringWidth.test.ts
@@ -1285,8 +1285,10 @@ test("options lookup ignores Object.prototype pollution", () => {
   try {
     (Object.prototype as any).countAnsiEscapeCodes = true;
     (Object.prototype as any).ambiguousIsNarrow = false;
+    (Object.prototype as any).perCodePoint = true;
     expect(Bun.stringWidth("\x1b[31mhello\x1b[39m", {})).toBe(5);
     expect(Bun.stringWidth("★", {})).toBe(1);
+    expect(Bun.stringWidth("👩‍👩‍👧‍👦", {})).toBe(2);
     // An explicit own property still wins.
     expect(Bun.stringWidth("\x1b[31mhello\x1b[39m", { countAnsiEscapeCodes: true })).toBe(13);
     // Inherited properties from a non-Object.prototype prototype are honored,
@@ -1295,9 +1297,71 @@ test("options lookup ignores Object.prototype pollution", () => {
   } finally {
     delete (Object.prototype as any).countAnsiEscapeCodes;
     delete (Object.prototype as any).ambiguousIsNarrow;
+    delete (Object.prototype as any).perCodePoint;
   }
 });
 
+// perCodePoint: true measures each code point on its own (node's GetColumnWidth in
+// src/node_i18n.cc, which node's console.table and util.inspect align with) instead
+// of once per grapheme cluster. These are the values documented in
+// docs/runtime/utils.mdx and bun.d.ts; every perCodePoint value below equals what
+// node v26's internalBinding("icu").getStringWidth returns for the same string.
+describe("perCodePoint", () => {
+  const family = "👨‍👩‍👧‍👦"; // four emoji joined by three ZWJs
+  const widths = (input: string) => ({
+    default: Bun.stringWidth(input),
+    perCodePoint: Bun.stringWidth(input, { perCodePoint: true }),
+  });
+
+  test("is off by default", () => {
+    expect(Bun.stringWidth(family)).toBe(2);
+    expect(Bun.stringWidth(family, {})).toBe(2);
+    expect(Bun.stringWidth(family, { perCodePoint: false })).toBe(2);
+  });
+
+  test("counts every member of an emoji sequence", () => {
+    expect(widths(family)).toEqual({ default: 2, perCodePoint: 8 });
+    expect(widths("🇯🇵")).toEqual({ default: 2, perCodePoint: 4 }); // two regional indicators
+    expect(widths("👍🏽")).toEqual({ default: 2, perCodePoint: 4 }); // skin tone modifier is East Asian Wide
+    expect(widths("🏳️‍🌈")).toEqual({ default: 2, perCodePoint: 3 }); // 🏳 (1) + VS16 (0) + ZWJ (0) + 🌈 (2)
+    expect(widths("1\uFE0F\u20E3")).toEqual({ default: 2, perCodePoint: 1 }); // keycap: digit + two marks
+  });
+
+  test("wide, combining and control characters keep their widths", () => {
+    expect(widths("hello")).toEqual({ default: 5, perCodePoint: 5 });
+    expect(widths("日本")).toEqual({ default: 4, perCodePoint: 4 });
+    expect(widths("x\u0300")).toEqual({ default: 1, perCodePoint: 1 });
+    expect(widths("a\u0007b\u0085c")).toEqual({ default: 3, perCodePoint: 3 }); // Latin-1 C0 and C1 controls
+    expect(widths("")).toEqual({ default: 0, perCodePoint: 0 });
+  });
+
+  test("soft hyphen takes a column, as in node", () => {
+    expect(widths("a\u00ADb")).toEqual({ default: 2, perCodePoint: 3 });
+  });
+
+  test("composes with countAnsiEscapeCodes", () => {
+    const latin1 = "\x1b[31mhello\x1b[0m";
+    expect(Bun.stringWidth(latin1, { perCodePoint: true })).toBe(5);
+    expect(Bun.stringWidth(latin1, { perCodePoint: true, countAnsiEscapeCodes: true })).toBe(12);
+
+    const c1 = "\x9b31mhello\x9b0m";
+    expect(Bun.stringWidth(c1, { perCodePoint: true })).toBe(5);
+    expect(Bun.stringWidth(c1, { perCodePoint: true, countAnsiEscapeCodes: true })).toBe(10);
+
+    const utf16 = `\x1b[31m${family}\x1b[0m`;
+    expect(Bun.stringWidth(utf16, { perCodePoint: true })).toBe(8);
+    expect(Bun.stringWidth(utf16, { perCodePoint: true, countAnsiEscapeCodes: true })).toBe(15);
+  });
+
+  test("composes with ambiguousIsNarrow", () => {
+    expect(Bun.stringWidth("★☆", { perCodePoint: true })).toBe(2);
+    expect(Bun.stringWidth("★☆", { perCodePoint: true, ambiguousIsNarrow: true })).toBe(2);
+    expect(Bun.stringWidth("★☆", { perCodePoint: true, ambiguousIsNarrow: false })).toBe(4);
+    // U+00AD is East Asian Ambiguous, so this also covers the Latin-1 path.
+    expect(Bun.stringWidth("a\u00ADb", { perCodePoint: true, ambiguousIsNarrow: false })).toBe(4);
+  });
+});
+
 // The Latin-1 ANSI-excluding width walks 16-64 byte SIMD chunks counting
 // printable bytes until the next escape introducer, then hands it to the
 // shared recognizer (ANSI::consumeANSI). These tests pin its behavior at and