☥
Technical information
| Symbol | ☥ | |
| Name | Ankh | |
| Unicode number | U+2625 | |
| Category | Medical and healing symbols | |
| Description | The 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-16 | 0x2625 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002625 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2625" | |
| CSS Code | \2625 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2625" | |
| Perl | \x{2625} | |
| Python 2 | u"\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 ☥.
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Font size:
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12px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>☥</span>
span {
content: "\2625";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana