The standard inventory of characters used in Egyptology is 加汀納符號表 (1928–1953).
A.H. Gardiner (1928), Catalogue of the Egyptian hieroglyphic printing type, from matrices owned and controlled by Dr. Alan Gardiner, "Additions to the new hieroglyphic fount (1928)", in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 15 (1929), p. 95; , "Additions to the new hieroglyphic fount (1931)", in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 17 (1931), pp. 245-247; A.H. Gardiner , "Supplement to the catalogue of the Egyptian hieroglyphic printing type, showing acquisitions to December 1953" (1953).
Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyphs(英语:Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)) as of version 5.2 (2009) assigned 1,070 Unicode characters.