Type a name and it is spelled with Egyptian sound signs, letter by letter. Choose a different sign for any sound, set the name across or down, add a royal title, then print it or save it as a picture.
A modern game, played with real signs. Egyptians wrote only royal names in cartouches, and they spelled sounds differently from English: they wrote consonants and few vowels, had no letters for l or v, and had several sounds English lacks. When scribes of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods had to write Greek and Latin names (Ptolemy, Cleopatra, Caesar), they spelled them out with sound signs, as this tool does. So there is no single right way to write your name: below, each letter shows the choice made and the other signs you could use.
Letters A to Z; up to 16 letters. Accents are dropped.
Layout
Signs face
Signs
Vowels
“Copy as text” copies the signs as Unicode hieroglyphs, in reading order; they show as hieroglyphs only where a hieroglyph font is installed.
Letter by letter
Tap a sign to use it for that letter. The first choice is the one Ptolemaic scribes would most likely have used; the others are other ways to hear the sound.
Read a real cartouche
These are the names of real rulers as they appear in their cartouches. Try to read each one with the sign list, then tap “Show the reading”. Watch for the sun disk 𓇳 of the god Ra: it is written first out of respect but often read last.
Royal names and readings follow Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar, the Excursus on the royal titulary, and Wikipedia’s articles on each ruler. Learn the five royal names in The Five Royal Names and Reading Royal Names (Middle Egyptian I), or Cartouches for young explorers.