Free online translator for converting English names to Egyptian Hieroglyphs (ππ€πππ ππ)
Egyptian hieroglyphs are one of the world's oldest writing systems, used for over 3,000 years. This tool uses uniliteral (single-sound) hieroglyphs for phonetic transliteration.
Our tool uses uniliteral hieroglyphs - the 24 single-consonant signs that work like an alphabet. Ancient scribes used these to spell foreign names phonetically.
Here are examples of common English names transliterated to Egyptian Hieroglyphs:
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Use our hieroglyphic translator above. Type your name in English and it converts to Egyptian hieroglyphs using the 24 uniliteral (single-sound) signs.
Yes! We use authentic Unicode Egyptian hieroglyphic characters. The uniliterals we use are the same phonetic signs ancient scribes used to spell foreign names.
Egyptian hieroglyphs primarily recorded consonants. Vowels are reconstructed by scholars. Our tool uses semi-consonants (like the vulture for 'a') as vowel approximations.
A cartouche is an oval frame enclosing royal names in hieroglyphs. It represented protection and eternity. Pharaohs' names were always written in cartouches.
The Rosetta Stone (discovered 1799) had the same text in hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Greek. Jean-François Champollion decoded hieroglyphs in 1822 using this trilingual inscription.