Anchor
Anchor has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⚓
- Unicode
- U+2693
About this symbol
The anchor stands for hope and steadiness, from the Letter to the Hebrews, which calls hope an anchor of the soul. Early Christians in Rome drew it in the catacombs, where its crossbar could stand in for a cross. Navies and sailors have used it as their emblem for centuries.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- ANCHOR
- Also called
- Nautical term, harbor (on maps)
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Dictionary and map symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 4.1 (2005)
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