Hatching is an artistic technique for shading. It may also refer to:

• The crosshatch symbol or number sign
• Crossed letter, an overwritten document
• Hatching (heraldry), a system for depicting armory in monochrome
• An animal escaping its egg after incubation

• The Hatching, a 2014 British black horror comedy film
• Hatching (film), a 2022 Finnish horror film

• Hatch (disambiguation)
• Map symbol; use of hatching and cross-hatching in cartography