Interactive · The scribe’s chart
Your Name in Hieroglyphs
Type your name and watch it appear, sign by sign, inside a cartouche. Then print it.
Your name will appear here.
Up to 14 letters. “Ch” and “sh” each have a sign of their own.
These signs follow the Egypt Exploration Society’s chart for writing your name: a sign for each letter of the English alphabet, and one each for “ch” and “sh”. If a letter is missing, spell your name by its sounds. Source: Egypt Exploration Society, “Try writing your name in hieroglyphs”
So this is a modern sound-alike, not how the ancient Egyptians wrote names. Their hieroglyphs wrote consonants only; no vowels were written out. And it was not an alphabet: one sign could stand for two or more sounds, like the gaming-board sign for mn. Source: British Museum, “Ancient Egypt: Symbols of the pharaoh”
A cartouche is an oval placed around the names of royal people in hieroglyphic inscriptions. Source: British Museum, “Ancient Egypt: Symbols of the pharaoh”
The straight line at one end marks the end of the name and helps show the reading direction. Hieroglyphs could be written left to right or right to left, but always top to bottom. Source: Egypt Exploration Society, “Try writing your name in hieroglyphs”
See every sign in the chart
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
- CH
- SH
Hieroglyphs set in Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs (SIL Open Font License). Nothing you type is stored or sent.