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Character	Name	Code point	Alt code	Option keys	HTML	LaTeX
	U+2625. The ankh for running text: a T with a drop-shaped loop on top, the Egyptian sign for life, also called the key of life. In Unicode since version 1.1 (1993), filed under Medical and healing symbols, next to the caduceus. It has no Alt code, no named HTML entity and no LaTeX macro: ☥ in HTML.
	U+132F9. The ankh as a hieroglyph, S34 in Gardiner's sign list. Unicode's note: logogram (life) : ꜥnḫ. The sign stands for three consonants, so it also wrote the words for mirror and floral bouquet. Added in version 5.2 (2009). It needs a hieroglyph font, so look at what arrives before you post it. 𓋹 in HTML.
	Made of U+132F9, U+13351 and U+132F4. Life, prosperity, health: the signs S34, U28 and S29, written after the names of pharaohs and at the ends of letters. Gardiner read them as verbs: be alive, strong and healthy.
	Made of U+133D9 and U+132F9. Dj ankh: X8, the conical loaf that writes the verb to give, then the ankh. An honorific often added after the name of the reigning pharaoh.
	Made of U+132F9, U+132BD and U+13300. Ankh, djed and was, the three signs that stand together in the decoration of temple walls and shrines, and on amulets that join all three.
	Made of U+2625. ☥ three times in one copy, for a divider or a bio. In Egyptian scenes of purification, chains of ankh signs could replace the zigzag lines that stood for water.
	Made of U+132F9 and U+13080. The udjat eye, D10, with an ankh on each side. The Eye of Horus stood for well-being, healing and protection.
	U+1099E. A symbol of the Meroitic hieroglyphs, which Unicode cross-references to ☥ and to 𓋹. The Meroitic kingdom lay south of Egypt, and its temples, funerary art and pottery feature the ankh. Added in version 6.1 (2012).
	Made of U+2625 and U+132F9. The symbol and the hieroglyph in one copy, to see which of the two a screen draws.
	Made of U+132F9. 𓋹 three times in one copy.
	Made of U+132F9, U+13216 and U+1340D. The word ankh with its sound signs: S34, then the ripple of water N35 for n, and Aa1 for ḫ. The ankh alone already stands for all three consonants, and a text could write either form. Inscriptions set the n above the ḫ, and plain text puts the three in a row.
	Made of U+133D9, U+132F9, U+132BD and U+13300. Dj ankh djed was, the longer form of Given life, also added after the name of the reigning pharaoh.
	Made of U+132F9, U+13300 and U+1339F. Ankh and was with the basket V30, which writes the word all. Temple friezes set the two signs on top of the basket. As a single sign it is U+141C9, in the last group.
	Made of U+132F9, U+132BD, U+13300 and U+1339F. Ankh, djed and was with the basket that writes all. As a single sign it is U+141C8, in the last group.
	Made of U+132F9, U+13193, U+133CF and U+131FE. Ankh djet: the ankh, then the cobra I10, X1 and the land sign N16, which spell djet, forever. An honorific after the name of a pharaoh.
	Made of U+2CB1, U+2C9B and U+03E9. Onh, the word that ankh became in the Coptic stage of the Egyptian language: the small letters oou, ni and hori.
	U+13251. One sign for the house of life. Unicode's note: logogram (scriptorum, school (house of life)) : pr-ꜥnḫ.
	U+13262. One sign for the mansion of life. Unicode's note: logogram (mansion of life) : ḥw.t-ꜥnḫ.
	U+132BD. The djed pillar, which stands for stability and is commonly understood as the spine of Osiris. Unicode's note: phonemogram : ḏd.
	U+13300. The was sceptre: a stylized animal head on a long staff with a forked end, a sign of power or dominion. Unicode's note: phonemogram : wꜣs.
	U+133AC. The tyet, or knot of Isis: much like an ankh, except that its arms curve down. Early ankhs resemble it, and two Egyptologists thought the signs had one origin. Unicode's note: logogram (Tit-amulet) : tꞽ.t.
	U+1339F. The basket that writes nb, all, under the ankh and the was sceptre in temple friezes. Unicode's note: phonemogram : nb.
	U+13080. The Eye of Horus. Unicode's note: logogram (udjat eye) : wḏꜣ.t. One of the most common Egyptian amulets, as the ankh-shaped amulet was not: those were rare.
	U+2640. A circle on a small cross, where the ankh has a drop-shaped loop on a T. Unicode's aliases: Venus, alchemical symbol for copper. Alt+12 on a number pad, &female; in HTML. It has the Emoji property, so an app may draw it in colour.
	U+2641. The same parts the other way up: a cross on top of a circle. Unicode's alias: alchemical symbol for antimony.
	U+2CE8. The staurogram: the Greek letters tau and rho laid over each other, a cross with a loop to the right of its top. Early Christians used it as a monogram, first to shorten stauros, the Greek word for cross. The ankh is easily confused with it.
	U+2CE7. Stauros, cross, as a Coptic symbol. The Copts also made the ankh their own as the crux ansata, the handled cross, with a round loop where the ankh has a drop. Unicode has no character by that name.
	U+271D. The Christian cross, with no loop. The ankh was one of the few Egyptian motifs that stayed in use after Egypt became Christian in the 4th and 5th centuries. It has the Emoji property, so an app may draw it in colour.
	U+2020. A footnote mark with no loop. Unicode's aliases: obelisk, long cross, oblong cross. Alt+0134 on a number pad, &dagger; in HTML, \dagger in LaTeX.
	U+145A1. Unicode's alias: vita, the Latin for life. The ankh was taken into Anatolian hieroglyphs to write the word for life. Added in version 8.0 (2015).
	U+101A0. The staurogram again, in the Ancient Symbols block. Unicode's aliases: rho-cross, staurogram. It cross-references ⳨. Added in version 7.0 (2014).
	U+141C6. One of the hieroglyphs of version 16.0 (2024), under Unicode's heading Sandal strap, ankh: Gardiner took the object the ankh pictures for a sandal strap. Unicode's note: classifier ankh vessel : ꜥnḫ.
	U+141C7. Under Unicode's heading Sandal strap, ankh. Its note: logogram (stability and life) : ḏd-ꜥnḫ. Added in version 16.0 (2024).
	U+141C8. One sign for the group 𓋹𓊽𓌀𓎟. Unicode's note: logogram (all life, stability and dominion) : ꜥnḫ-ḏd-wꜣs-nb. Added in version 16.0 (2024).
	U+141C9. One sign for the group 𓋹𓌀𓎟. Unicode's note: logogram (all life and dominion) : ꜥnḫ-wꜣs-nb. Added in version 16.0 (2024).

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How it works

The ankh symbol is ☥, Ankh, U+2625. Row two is the hieroglyph 𓋹, U+132F9, which needs a hieroglyph font. The 35 rows also hold Egyptian phrases written with it, such as 𓋹𓍑𓋴, life, prosperity, health, and the Meroitic ankh 𐦞.

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Codes for the ankh

☥ has no Alt code, no named HTML entity and no LaTeX macro. In HTML it is ☥ or ☥, and 𓋹 is 𓋹 or 𓋹. Two look-alikes have more: † is Alt+0134, &dagger; and \dagger, and ♀ is Alt+12 and &female;.

Tips

Copy the row Both ankhs, ☥𓋹, and paste it where you will post: what arrives tells you which of the two that screen draws.
𓋹𓍑𓋴, life, prosperity, health, followed the names of pharaohs and closed letters, so it works as a sign-off.
♀ and ✝ may arrive in colour, because both have the Emoji property. ☥ does not, so it stays plain text.

Questions and answers

Is there an ankh emoji?

No. ☥ is a plain text symbol: Unicode gives U+2625 no Emoji property, and no name in the emoji list has the word ankh. Copy ☥ and it takes the colour and size of the text around it.

What does the ankh symbol mean?

Life. The ankh is the Egyptian hieroglyph for the word life, also called the key of life. In Egyptian art gods hold it and hand it to the pharaoh. What object it pictures is unsettled: many scholars think a knot.

Why does 𓋹 show as an empty box?

𓋹 is U+132F9, in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, which Unicode added in 2009. A device draws it only when one of its fonts covers that block. ☥, U+2625, has been in Unicode since 1993: use it where 𓋹 fails.

What is the difference between an ankh and a cross?

The ankh has a drop-shaped loop where a cross has its top arm, and it is far older: the earliest examples date to Egypt's First Dynasty. Coptic Christians took it over as the crux ansata, the handled cross, with a round loop.

All 35 ankhs and ankh phrases

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Ankh U+2625. The ankh for running text: a T with a drop-shaped loop on top, the Egyptian sign for life, also called the key of life. In Unicode since version 1.1 (1993), filed under Medical and healing symbols, next to the caduceus. It has no Alt code, no named HTML entity and no LaTeX macro: ☥ in HTML.
Ankh wedja seneb Made of U+132F9, U+13351 and U+132F4. Life, prosperity, health: the signs S34, U28 and S29, written after the names of pharaohs and at the ends of letters. Gardiner read them as verbs: be alive, strong and healthy.
Egyptian hieroglyph S034 U+132F9. The ankh as a hieroglyph, S34 in Gardiner's sign list. Unicode's note: logogram (life) : ꜥnḫ. The sign stands for three consonants, so it also wrote the words for mirror and floral bouquet. Added in version 5.2 (2009). It needs a hieroglyph font, so look at what arrives before you post it. 𓋹 in HTML.
Eye of Horus between ankhs Made of U+132F9 and U+13080. The udjat eye, D10, with an ankh on each side. The Eye of Horus stood for well-being, healing and protection.

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Given life Made of U+133D9 and U+132F9. Dj ankh: X8, the conical loaf that writes the verb to give, then the ankh. An honorific often added after the name of the reigning pharaoh.
Life, stability, dominion Made of U+132F9, U+132BD and U+13300. Ankh, djed and was, the three signs that stand together in the decoration of temple walls and shrines, and on amulets that join all three.
Meroitic hieroglyphic symbol vidj U+1099E. A symbol of the Meroitic hieroglyphs, which Unicode cross-references to ☥ and to 𓋹. The Meroitic kingdom lay south of Egypt, and its temples, funerary art and pottery feature the ankh. Added in version 6.1 (2012).
Three ankhs Made of U+2625. ☥ three times in one copy, for a divider or a bio. In Egyptian scenes of purification, chains of ankh signs could replace the zigzag lines that stood for water.

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Both ankhs Made of U+2625 and U+132F9. The symbol and the hieroglyph in one copy, to see which of the two a screen draws.
Three hieroglyph ankhs Made of U+132F9. 𓋹 three times in one copy.

Egyptian words with 𓋹 8

Alive forever Made of U+132F9, U+13193, U+133CF and U+131FE. Ankh djet: the ankh, then the cobra I10, X1 and the land sign N16, which spell djet, forever. An honorific after the name of a pharaoh.
All life and dominion Made of U+132F9, U+13300 and U+1339F. Ankh and was with the basket V30, which writes the word all. Temple friezes set the two signs on top of the basket. As a single sign it is U+141C9, in the last group.
All life, stability and dominion Made of U+132F9, U+132BD, U+13300 and U+1339F. Ankh, djed and was with the basket that writes all. As a single sign it is U+141C8, in the last group.
Ankh, spelled out Made of U+132F9, U+13216 and U+1340D. The word ankh with its sound signs: S34, then the ripple of water N35 for n, and Aa1 for ḫ. The ankh alone already stands for all three consonants, and a text could write either form. Inscriptions set the n above the ḫ, and plain text puts the three in a row.
Egyptian hieroglyph O001A U+13251. One sign for the house of life. Unicode's note: logogram (scriptorum, school (house of life)) : pr-ꜥnḫ.
Egyptian hieroglyph O010A U+13262. One sign for the mansion of life. Unicode's note: logogram (mansion of life) : ḥw.t-ꜥnḫ.
Given life, stability and dominion Made of U+133D9, U+132F9, U+132BD and U+13300. Dj ankh djed was, the longer form of Given life, also added after the name of the reigning pharaoh.
Life, in Coptic Made of U+2CB1, U+2C9B and U+03E9. Onh, the word that ankh became in the Coptic stage of the Egyptian language: the small letters oou, ni and hori.

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Egyptian hieroglyph D010 U+13080. The Eye of Horus. Unicode's note: logogram (udjat eye) : wḏꜣ.t. One of the most common Egyptian amulets, as the ankh-shaped amulet was not: those were rare.
Egyptian hieroglyph R011 U+132BD. The djed pillar, which stands for stability and is commonly understood as the spine of Osiris. Unicode's note: phonemogram : ḏd.
Egyptian hieroglyph S040 U+13300. The was sceptre: a stylized animal head on a long staff with a forked end, a sign of power or dominion. Unicode's note: phonemogram : wꜣs.
Egyptian hieroglyph V030 U+1339F. The basket that writes nb, all, under the ankh and the was sceptre in temple friezes. Unicode's note: phonemogram : nb.
Egyptian hieroglyph V039 U+133AC. The tyet, or knot of Isis: much like an ankh, except that its arms curve down. Early ankhs resemble it, and two Egyptologists thought the signs had one origin. Unicode's note: logogram (Tit-amulet) : tꞽ.t.

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Coptic symbol stauros U+2CE7. Stauros, cross, as a Coptic symbol. The Copts also made the ankh their own as the crux ansata, the handled cross, with a round loop where the ankh has a drop. Unicode has no character by that name.
Coptic symbol tau ro U+2CE8. The staurogram: the Greek letters tau and rho laid over each other, a cross with a loop to the right of its top. Early Christians used it as a monogram, first to shorten stauros, the Greek word for cross. The ankh is easily confused with it.
Dagger U+2020. A footnote mark with no loop. Unicode's aliases: obelisk, long cross, oblong cross. Alt+0134 on a number pad, &dagger; in HTML, \dagger in LaTeX.
Earth U+2641. The same parts the other way up: a cross on top of a circle. Unicode's alias: alchemical symbol for antimony.
Female sign U+2640. A circle on a small cross, where the ankh has a drop-shaped loop on a T. Unicode's aliases: Venus, alchemical symbol for copper. Alt+12 on a number pad, &female; in HTML. It has the Emoji property, so an app may draw it in colour.
Latin cross U+271D. The Christian cross, with no loop. The ankh was one of the few Egyptian motifs that stayed in use after Egypt became Christian in the 4th and 5th centuries. It has the Emoji property, so an app may draw it in colour.

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Anatolian hieroglyph A369 U+145A1. Unicode's alias: vita, the Latin for life. The ankh was taken into Anatolian hieroglyphs to write the word for life. Added in version 8.0 (2015).
Egyptian hieroglyph-141C6 U+141C6. One of the hieroglyphs of version 16.0 (2024), under Unicode's heading Sandal strap, ankh: Gardiner took the object the ankh pictures for a sandal strap. Unicode's note: classifier ankh vessel : ꜥnḫ.
Egyptian hieroglyph-141C7 U+141C7. Under Unicode's heading Sandal strap, ankh. Its note: logogram (stability and life) : ḏd-ꜥnḫ. Added in version 16.0 (2024).
Egyptian hieroglyph-141C8 U+141C8. One sign for the group 𓋹𓊽𓌀𓎟. Unicode's note: logogram (all life, stability and dominion) : ꜥnḫ-ḏd-wꜣs-nb. Added in version 16.0 (2024).
Egyptian hieroglyph-141C9 U+141C9. One sign for the group 𓋹𓌀𓎟. Unicode's note: logogram (all life and dominion) : ꜥnḫ-wꜣs-nb. Added in version 16.0 (2024).
Greek symbol tau rho U+101A0. The staurogram again, in the Ancient Symbols block. Unicode's aliases: rho-cross, staurogram. It cross-references ⳨. Added in version 7.0 (2014).

How this list was compiled: Names, and the code points they belong to, are checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, checked 2026-09-19), and printed in sentence case. Notes that say Unicode's note, Unicode's alias, Unicode files it or cross-references quote the headings, aliases, notes and cross-references of NamesList.txt of the same version (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); the version a character was added in is from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), block names are from Blocks.txt, the Emoji property and the text style and emoji style sequences are from emoji-data.txt and emoji-variation-sequences.txt of the same version, and the years are from https://www.unicode.org/history/publicationdates.html. Alt codes are from the code page 437 table (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/CP437.TXT), the PC graphics table for codes 1 to 31 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MISC/IBMGRAPH.TXT) and the code page 1252 table (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT). Option keys were read from a U.S. keyboard layout; other layouts differ. HTML entity names are from https://html.spec.whatwg.org/entities.json, the HTML 4 name first where there is one, else the shortest. LaTeX macros are listed only when LaTeX's own fontdef.dtx or ltoutenc.dtx (https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/tree/develop/base) or the amssymb and amsfonts sources (https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/amsfonts/source/) define them, matched to a code point through unicode-math-table.tex (https://github.com/latex3/unicode-math). The last group holds characters that one ordinary computer had no font for on the day this list was checked; your device may differ. Hieroglyph notes quoted as Unicode's note are the annotation lines NamesList.txt 18.0.0 carries for the Egyptian hieroglyphs, copied character for character, and the heading Sandal strap, ankh is from the same file. Meanings, all checked on 2026-09-19: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh (key of life, the three consonants, mirror and floral bouquet, the spelling S34 N35 Aa1 with n above ḫ, Gardiner's sandal strap, chains of ankhs for water, ankh, djed and was on walls, shrines and amulets, the basket for all, the tyet and the common origin, ankh amulets rare, Anatolian hieroglyphs, the Meroitic kingdom, the staurogram, the crux ansata, the 4th and 5th centuries, Coptic ⲱⲛϩ, the two code points); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh_wedja_seneb (𓋹𓍑𓋴, after the names of pharaohs and at the ends of letters, Gardiner's reading); https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ḏj_ꜥnḫ and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ḏj_ꜥnḫ_ḏd_wꜣs (X8 S34, X8 S34 R11 S40, honorifics after the name of the reigning pharaoh); https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ꜥnḫ_ḏt (S34 I10 X1 N16, alive forever); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardiner%27s_sign_list (S34 is the ankh, X8 conical loaf and give, I10 cobra, N16 land, N35 ripple of water); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djed, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Was-sceptre, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyet, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Horus and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staurogram for the one-line meanings of those signs. Licence: own work (facts from the Unicode Character Database, Unicode License v3, and from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in our own words; aliases and notes marked as Unicode's are quoted from NamesList.txt, Copyright © 1991-2026 Unicode, Inc., https://www.unicode.org/license.txt)