This page displays Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Hieroglyphs and their descriptions
Direction
Font
Demonstration
For a demonstration, press the Demo button. It displays this coded text:
M17 G43 [D21/D36] N5 G17 [Q3 X1/N1]
The conventional modern pronunciation is something like, โyew rgh em pet โ (but no one really knows what ancient Egyptian sounded like). The English translation is, โThe Sun is in the sky.โ
Information
This page converts any mixture of Unicode hieroglyphs (like ๐ฟ), Gardiner codes (like A1) and Manuel de Codage mnemonics (like pA) to Unicode hieroglyphs. It can create an approximate representation of some some simple hieroglyphic texts.
All the available codes and hieroglyphs are listed here: The 1071 hieroglyphs from Unicode 5.2 The 330 mnemonics are the phonetic codes described here: Manuel de Codage Appendix B.
Around 4,000 additional hieroglyphs exist, but they are not available here because they are not in Unicode.
How to use this page
Type any mixture of hieroglyphs, codes and mnemonics. Codes and mnemonics require spaces or punctuation between them, but hieroglyphs donโt.
Type a slash, / , to start a new line of hieroglyphs.
Type a hyphen, - , to insert a space between hieroglyphs.
Type square brackets, [], around vertically-stacked groups, with a slash, /, separating the top and bottom. Vertically stacked groups can only have two levels.
In the hieroglyphs, if you see the symbol โ, it means you typed something that cannot be interpreted.
You can copy hieroglyphs from here and paste them in other places, but they will only look right on a computer that has an appropriate font installed in it, and they might only display correctly left-to-right.
Known problems
There are currently many known problems with layout. Some individual glyphs are badly positioned, and this depends on the font. Vertically-stacked groups donโt work at all when the overall layout is vertical. Some of these problems might be fixed in future versions.
Sources
The hieroglyphic fonts on this page are Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs and New Gardiner SMP.
This page is partly based on the Egyptology software pages by Mark-Jan Nederhof at the University of St. Andrews.