Technical information

Symbol
NameAnkh
Unicode numberU+2625
CategoryMedical and healing symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character "☥", or U+2625, is known as the "Ankh". It is a part of the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and is categorized under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The Ankh, also known as "crux ansata", is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic ideograph symbolizing "life". It resembles a cross but has an oval loop in place of the upper bar. This symbol is frequently found in ancient Egyptian tomb and temple artwork, often held in the hand of a god or pharaoh, representing their life force.

Encoding

HTML Entity☥
HTML Entity (hex)☥
URL Escape Code%E2%98%A5
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x98 0xA5
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011000:10100101
UTF-160x2625
UTF-320x00002625

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2625"
CSS Code\2625
JavaScript"\u2625"
Perl\x{2625}
Python 2u"\u2625"
Python 3\u2625
Ruby\u{2625}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ☥ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
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button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9765;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2625";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

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