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All 87 signs: tap one to copy it
87 signs in 8 groups.
With a keyboard: Tab goes into the table once, the arrow keys move inside it, and Enter copies.
Letters with a sound to match 17
Vowels, by convention 5
Letters Egyptian did not have 4
Two letters, one sign 3
Cartouche ends 2
Numbers 47
No sign 1
Spare signs 8
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This Egyptian font generator swaps each letter for a real Unicode hieroglyph: your letters in their signs, not a translation, since no scribe ever spelled English. Some apps strip or block these characters, and screen readers may read them badly.
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Whose spelling this is
Egyptian writing had 24 signs for one consonant each, and scribes spelled foreign names with them. Ptolemy's cartouche, the loop round his name, reads stool, loaf, lasso, lion, ribs, reeds, cloth: p, t, o, l, m, y, s. The O and L here come from it, the A and E from Cleopatra's. C, V and X had no sound to match and borrow the basket, the viper, and basket plus cloth.
Reading the result
Signs run left to right, and the animals face the start of the line. Scribes stacked signs in squares and left no gaps between words; this page sets them in a row and keeps your spaces. Type ( and ) round a name for the two ends of a cartouche.
Tips
SH becomes one sign, the pool; CH and KH have signs of their own. Mishap gets the pool too.
Type 2026 as 2000 20 6. Typed whole, each digit converts alone: 2, a plain 0, 2 and 6.
E and I share the reed and C and K the basket, so keep the plain spelling of the name.
Questions and answers
Is this a real hieroglyphics translator?
No. It changes letters, not language. Egyptian used about 900 signs in the Middle Kingdom and over 5,000 by Greco-Roman times. This page keeps one sign a letter, most from the 24 that stood for one consonant: your spelling in their signs, vowels included.
Why do I see empty boxes?
The characters arrived and the font did not. Hieroglyphs joined Unicode in 2009, and a device shows them only if one of its fonts draws them. Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs does, under an open licence. Whoever receives the text needs one too.
How did Egyptians write numbers?
They repeated signs and added them up: a stroke is 1, a cattle hobble 10, a coil 100, a lotus 1,000, a finger 10,000, a tadpole 100,000, the god Heh a million. With no zero, 4,622 was four lotuses, six coils, two hobbles, two strokes.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph D021 (mouth) for RU+1308B. A mouth. The sound r.
๐งEgyptian hieroglyph D046 (hand) for DU+130A7. A hand. The sound d. Cleopatra's cartouche has it where the Greek spelling has a T.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph D058 (foot) for BU+130C0. A foot and lower leg. The sound b, one of the 24 signs that stand for a single consonant.
๐ Egyptian hieroglyph G017 (owl) for MU+13153. An owl. The sound m. Ptolemy's cartouche spells his M with the two ribs instead, which are under Spare signs.
๐ ฑEgyptian hieroglyph G043 (quail chick) for WU+13171. A quail chick. Read w or u.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph I009 (horned viper) for FU+13191. A horned desert viper. The sound f.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph I010 (cobra) for JU+13193. A cobra at rest. Egyptologists write the sound แธ and read it like the j in judge.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph M017A (two reeds) for YU+131CC. Two flowering reeds. The sound y. Ptolemy's cartouche writes his Y with a pair of reeds.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph N029 (hill slope) for QU+1320E. A sandy hill slope. An emphatic k, written q or แธณ. It is the first sign in Cleopatra's cartouche.
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Letters with a sound to match, continued
๐Egyptian hieroglyph N035 (ripple of water) for NU+13216. A ripple of water. The sound n.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph O004 (reed shelter) for HU+13254. The plan of a reed shelter or courtyard. A plain h. Egyptian wrote three more H sounds, and their signs are under Spare signs.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph O034 (door bolt) for ZU+13283. A door bolt. It came to be read s, and its older value was perhaps z or th, which is why it stands for Z here.
๐ชEgyptian hieroglyph Q003 (stool) for PU+132AA. A stool of reed matting. The sound p, and the first sign in Ptolemy's cartouche.
๐ดEgyptian hieroglyph S029 (folded cloth) for SU+132F4. A folded piece of cloth. The sound s, and the last sign in Ptolemy's cartouche.
๐กEgyptian hieroglyph V031 (basket) for KU+133A1. A wickerwork basket with a handle. The sound k.
๐ผEgyptian hieroglyph W011 (jar stand) for GU+133BC. A ring-shaped stand for jars. The sound g.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph X001 (bread loaf) for TU+133CF. A half-round loaf of bread. The sound t, second in Ptolemy's cartouche.
Vowels, by convention 5
๐ฟEgyptian hieroglyph G001 (vulture) for AU+1313F. An Egyptian vulture. The real sound is a glottal stop, written ๊ฃ and called aleph. Egyptologists say it as a by convention, and Cleopatra's cartouche uses it for an A.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph M017 (reed) for EU+131CB. A flowering reed. Egyptian writing did not normally mark vowels, so E has no sign of its own. The reed is the E in Cleopatra's cartouche, and it serves I as well.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph M017 (reed) for IU+131CB. A flowering reed, called yodh and read i or a. The same sign stands for E on this page, so the two cannot be told apart on the way back.
๐ฏEgyptian hieroglyph V004 (lasso) for OU+1336F. A lasso. It reads w๊ฃ, two sounds, and scribes used it for the O in both Ptolemy and Cleopatra. Egyptian had no sign for a plain o.
๐ฒEgyptian hieroglyph Z007 (coil) for UU+133F2. A coil, the quick form of the quail chick taken over from hieratic handwriting. Read w or u.
Letters Egyptian did not have 4
๐ญEgyptian hieroglyph E023 (lion) for LU+130ED. A lion lying down. Egyptian had no L and the sign really reads rw. Scribes used it for the L in the Greek names Ptolemy and Cleopatra, and so does this page.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph I009 (horned viper) for VU+13191. The horned viper again. Egyptian had no V, and f is the nearest sound it wrote.
๐กEgyptian hieroglyph V031 (basket) for CU+133A1. The basket again. Egyptian had no letter C, so C borrows the sign for k. A soft C, as in cedar, gets it too, because a letter swap cannot hear.
๐ก๐ดEgyptian hieroglyphs V031 and S029 (basket, folded cloth) for XU+133A1 U+132F4. Two signs, the basket and the folded cloth: k, then s. Egyptian had no X, so the page spells the sound out.
Two letters, one sign 3
๐Egyptian hieroglyph AA001 (placenta) for KHU+1340D. Described in the Unicode notes as a human placenta. Written แธซ and read kh.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph N037 (pool) for SHU+13219. A rectangular pool. One sign for the sound sh, written ลก. Type s and h together and they become this one sign.
๐ฟEgyptian hieroglyph V013 (tethering rope) for CHU+1337F. A rope for tethering animals. Written แนฏ and read like the ch in church.
Cartouche ends 2
๐นEgyptian hieroglyph V011A (cartouche start) for (U+13379. The beginning of a cartouche, the rope loop drawn round a royal name. Type ( before the name and ) after it. You get the two ends, not the lines over and under the name.
๐บEgyptian hieroglyph V011B (cartouche end) for )U+1337A. The end of a cartouche, knot included. Read from the left, it closes the name.
Numbers 47
๐จEgyptian hieroglyph C011 (the god Heh) for 1,000,000U+13068. The god Heh, kneeling with both arms raised. A million, or simply more than anyone means to count.
๐ญEgyptian hieroglyph D050 (finger) for 10,000U+130AD. Ten thousand is a finger. This is 10,000, and the next eight characters repeat it up to nine times.
๐ฎEgyptian hieroglyph D050A (2 fingers) for 20,000U+130AE. Two fingers in one character: 20,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ฏEgyptian hieroglyph D050B (3 fingers) for 30,000U+130AF. Three fingers in one character: 30,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ฐEgyptian hieroglyph D050C (4 fingers) for 40,000U+130B0. Four fingers in one character: 40,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ฑEgyptian hieroglyph D050D (5 fingers) for 50,000U+130B1. Five fingers in one character: 50,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ฒEgyptian hieroglyph D050E (6 fingers) for 60,000U+130B2. Six fingers in one character: 60,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ณEgyptian hieroglyph D050F (7 fingers) for 70,000U+130B3. Seven fingers in one character: 70,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ดEgyptian hieroglyph D050G (8 fingers) for 80,000U+130B4. Eight fingers in one character: 80,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ตEgyptian hieroglyph D050H (9 fingers) for 90,000U+130B5. Nine fingers in one character: 90,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph I008 (tadpole) for 100,000U+13190. A tadpole. One hundred thousand, and the largest plain number sign.
๐ผEgyptian hieroglyph M012 (lotus plant) for 1,000U+131BC. The thousand is a lotus plant, leaf, stem and root. This is 1,000, and the next eight characters repeat it up to nine times.
๐ฝEgyptian hieroglyph M012A (2 lotus plants) for 2,000U+131BD. Two lotus plants in one character: 2,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐พEgyptian hieroglyph M012B (3 lotus plants) for 3,000U+131BE. Three lotus plants in one character: 3,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ฟEgyptian hieroglyph M012C (4 lotus plants) for 4,000U+131BF. Four lotus plants in one character: 4,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph M012D (5 lotus plants) for 5,000U+131C0. Five lotus plants in one character: 5,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph M012E (6 lotus plants) for 6,000U+131C1. Six lotus plants in one character: 6,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph M012F (7 lotus plants) for 7,000U+131C2. Seven lotus plants in one character: 7,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph M012G (8 lotus plants) for 8,000U+131C3. Eight lotus plants in one character: 8,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph M012H (9 lotus plants) for 9,000U+131C4. Nine lotus plants in one character: 9,000. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ขEgyptian hieroglyph V001 (coil of rope) for 100U+13362. The hundred is a coil of rope. This is 100, and the next eight characters repeat it up to nine times.
๐ฃEgyptian hieroglyph V001A (2 coils of rope) for 200U+13363. Two coils of rope in one character: 200. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐คEgyptian hieroglyph V001B (3 coils of rope) for 300U+13364. Three coils of rope in one character: 300. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ฅEgyptian hieroglyph V001C (4 coils of rope) for 400U+13365. Four coils of rope in one character: 400. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ฆEgyptian hieroglyph V001D (5 coils of rope) for 500U+13366. Five coils of rope in one character: 500. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐งEgyptian hieroglyph V001E (6 coils of rope) for 600U+13367. Six coils of rope in one character: 600. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐จEgyptian hieroglyph V001F (7 coils of rope) for 700U+13368. Seven coils of rope in one character: 700. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ฉEgyptian hieroglyph V001G (8 coils of rope) for 800U+13369. Eight coils of rope in one character: 800. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ชEgyptian hieroglyph V001H (9 coils of rope) for 900U+1336A. Nine coils of rope in one character: 900. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph V020 (cattle hobble) for 10U+13386. The ten is a hobble for cattle. This is 10, and the next eight characters repeat it up to nine times.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph V020A (2 cattle hobbles) for 20U+13387. Two cattle hobbles in one character: 20. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph V020B (3 cattle hobbles) for 30U+13388. Three cattle hobbles in one character: 30. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph V020C (4 cattle hobbles) for 40U+13389. Four cattle hobbles in one character: 40. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph V020D (5 cattle hobbles) for 50U+1338A. Five cattle hobbles in one character: 50. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph V020E (6 cattle hobbles) for 60U+1338B. Six cattle hobbles in one character: 60. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph V020F (7 cattle hobbles) for 70U+1338C. Seven cattle hobbles in one character: 70. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph V020G (8 cattle hobbles) for 80U+1338D. Eight cattle hobbles in one character: 80. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph V020H (9 cattle hobbles) for 90U+1338E. Nine cattle hobbles in one character: 90. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐บEgyptian hieroglyph Z015 (stroke) for 1U+133FA. One stroke for every unit. This is 1, and the next eight characters repeat it up to nine times.
๐ปEgyptian hieroglyph Z015A (2 strokes) for 2U+133FB. Two strokes in one character: 2. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ผEgyptian hieroglyph Z015B (3 strokes) for 3U+133FC. Three strokes in one character: 3. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ฝEgyptian hieroglyph Z015C (4 strokes) for 4U+133FD. Four strokes in one character: 4. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐พEgyptian hieroglyph Z015D (5 strokes) for 5U+133FE. Five strokes in one character: 5. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐ฟEgyptian hieroglyph Z015E (6 strokes) for 6U+133FF. Six strokes in one character: 6. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph Z015F (7 strokes) for 7U+13400. Seven strokes in one character: 7. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph Z015G (8 strokes) for 8U+13401. Eight strokes in one character: 8. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph Z015H (9 strokes) for 9U+13402. Nine strokes in one character: 9. Egyptians repeated a sign to multiply it, and Unicode gives each count its own code point.
No sign 1
0Digit zeroU+0030. The gap. Egyptian numbers had no zero and no place value, so a 0 you type stays a plain 0. A sum such as 2026 was written as two lotus plants, two hobbles and six strokes.
Spare signs 8
๐Egyptian hieroglyph AA015 (two ribs)U+1341D. Two ribs. A variant for m, and the M in Ptolemy's cartouche.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph D036 (forearm)U+1309D. A forearm, palm up. Called ayin, written ๊ฅ and said as a by convention. No English letter claims it, so it is here to copy.
๐กEgyptian hieroglyph F032 (animal belly)U+13121. The belly of an animal, with udder and tail. Written แบ, a softer sound than แธซ.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph S003 (red crown)U+132D4. The red crown of Lower Egypt. A variant for n.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph U033 (pestle)U+13358. A pestle. A variant for t.
๐Egyptian hieroglyph V028 (wick)U+1339B. A wick of twisted flax. Written แธฅ, an emphatic h.
๐คEgyptian hieroglyph V033 (linen bag)U+133A4. A bag of linen. Gardiner lists it as a variant for g.
๐ญEgyptian hieroglyph Z004 (two strokes)U+133ED. Two diagonal strokes. A second way to write y.
How this list was compiled: Built by a script on 2026-09-19 and checked on that date. Every code point is looked up by its catalog number in the Unicode Character Database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), where the characters are named EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH plus the Gardiner number padded to three digits, and the script stops if a name is missing. A second file, Unikemet 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unikemet.txt, described in https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr57/), must repeat the catalog number and the sound or number value of each sign. All are in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, U+13000 to U+1342F (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt); the cartouche annotations come from https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt. The sounds, their conventional readings and the variant signs come from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_uniliteral_signs. The vowel and L choices follow the cartouches of Ptolemy and Cleopatra as listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs. The number signs and the missing zero come from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_numerals and section 11.4 of the Unicode core specification (https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode18.0.0/core-spec/chapter-11/). Counts: 87 rows, of which 26 are letters, 3 letter pairs, 2 cartouche ends, 47 numbers, 8 spare signs to copy and 1 the gap for zero; 82 different hieroglyphs in all, because E and I share the reed, C and K the basket, F and V the viper, and X is two signs already listed. The letter map is a modern convention for spelling names. It is not a translation and an ancient scribe would not have written English this way. Licence line corrected after a review on 2026-09-20: 12 of the 39 single signs carry the wording of their kEH_Desc field in Unikemet.txt whole (a mouth, an owl, a ripple of water) and others follow it closely. Unikemet-18.0.0.txt (dated 2026-05-19) and https://www.unicode.org/license.txt (Unicode License V3) were read again that day. Licence: own list; sign descriptions adapted from Unikemet.txt, Unicode 18.0.0, used under the Unicode License v3 (Copyright ยฉ 1991-2026 Unicode, Inc., https://www.unicode.org/license.txt); other facts from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in our own words