Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs symbols

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Copy ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs symbols with Unicode names and code points. Click a sign to paste it. No signup.

What is this hieroglyph chart?

Copy ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs symbols with Unicode names and code points. Click a sign to paste it. No signup.

What the chart lists

A click-to-copy grid of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics from the Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyphs block, each with a Gardiner-style name.

  1. Signs with catalog names: Each cell shows the hieroglyph and a label such as EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH A001, so you can tell similar people, birds, and strokes apart.

  2. Unicode and HTML beside the sign: The U+ code point and HTML character reference sit under the glyph when a doc or component cannot take the raw character.

  3. Search across the repertoire: Search the publisher grid when you already know part of the name, instead of scrolling the full ancient Egyptian set.

  4. Recently copied signs: The recent row keeps the last signs you copied so a repeated mark is one click away.

How to copy a hieroglyph

From the chart to a note, caption, or design file.

  1. Search or scroll the grid

    Start from a Gardiner-style name, or browse until the sign matches the one you need.

  2. Click the sign

    CopyChar copies that character to the clipboard. Confirm the copied alert before you leave the grid.

  3. Paste where the text should live

    Drop the character into a doc, caption, or style. It is text, so it follows the surrounding font size.

  4. Use the code point in code

    Copy the U+ value or HTML reference when the destination escapes raw Unicode.

  5. Open the chart in a new tab if needed

    Clipboard access can fail inside a frame. The official hieroglyphs page is the same grid.

Tips before you publish a sign

A copied hieroglyph only shows up where the font has that character.
  • 01

    Check the destination font

    Many default UI fonts have no Egyptian Hieroglyphs coverage, so the paste looks like an empty box until you switch fonts.

  • 02

    Treat the grid as characters, not a photo

    These signs scale and recolor with text. A photo of a carving is a different asset if you need the stone texture.

  • 03

    Do not expect a sentence translator

    Pasting several signs does not turn an English sentence into ancient Egyptian. Pick the specific glyphs you mean.

  • 04

    Record the code point in the spec

    A name like A001 plus U+13000 keeps the same sign when someone else copies it later.

Who this chart is for

People who need the sign as text, not a history lecture.

  • Designers and lettering work

    Place one or two hieroglyphs in a poster, icon label, or title treatment.

  • Writers and educators

    Insert a real character into notes or worksheets instead of a stand-in image.

  • Front-end developers

    Test font fallback and HTML entities for a rare Unicode block.

  • Reference lookups

    Match a Gardiner-style label to the glyph when a style guide names the sign.

Why this page is separate

The hieroglyph repertoire is a different job from a general symbol keyboard.

  • A chart sized for this script

    CopyChar Hieroglyphs opens the hieroglyph category directly, instead of the mixed symbol keyboard on CopyChar.

  • Names you can cite

    Gardiner-style labels and code points travel with the character, which a screenshot does not.

  • The list stays on CopyChar

    This page documents the chart. New signs and labels update on the publisher grid.

Technical notes

What the embedded chart actually is.
Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyphs
The grid is the publisher copy board for that Unicode block, labeled in the Gardiner sign-list style.
Clipboard in the publisher frame
Copy runs inside CopyChar. Some browsers block clipboard writes from an iframe.
Font coverage
Rendering depends on the font at the paste target, not on this page.

Sources & References

What these signs are, and which Unicode block the chart copies from.
  • “Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs or hieroglyphics were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language.”
    — Wikipedia — Egyptian hieroglyphs

    Egyptian hieroglyphs as a writing system: According to this overview, hieroglyphs and hieroglyphics name the same formal script. The chart copies individual signs from that script. It does not teach you to read an inscription. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs

  • “Egyptian Hieroglyphs is a Unicode block containing the Gardiner's sign list of Egyptian hieroglyphs.”
    — Wikipedia — Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)

    Unicode block for the sign list: According to the Unicode block article, these characters encode Gardiner's sign list. That is why CopyChar labels them EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH plus a catalog code. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Hieroglyphs_(Unicode_block)

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