☠️ "skull and crossbones" emoji (copy and paste)
skull and crossbones
A cartoon human skull atop an X-shaped pair of bones, as on a pirate flag or poison symbol.
Meaning of the skull and crossbones Emoji
May represent various ideas of death or danger, e.g., dying from laughter or killing it with great skill. May also represent various pirate characters or mascots. Popular around Halloween. Not to be confused with 💀 Skull, though their applications may overlap.
Usage Examples
- Dying from laughter ☠️
- Pirate adventure ☠️
- Poison warning ☠️
- Halloween symbol ☠️
- Killing it ☠️
Alternative Names
skull and crossbones, poison symbol, pirate flag
Related Word Associations
skull, bones, pirate flag, poison symbol, Halloween
Appearance in OpenMoji
Download the OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0) version of the ☠️ skull and crossbones emoji for cross-platform use:
PNG format:
SVG format:
Unicode Data
- Code Point(s):
- U+2620 FE0F
- Version:
- Emoji E1.0
Developer Codes
| Shortcode (Discord) | :skull_and_crossbones: |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :skull_and_crossbones: |
| Shortcode (Slack) | :skull_and_crossbones: |
| HTML Dec | ☠ |
| HTML Hex | ☠ |
| CSS | \2620 |
| C, C++ & Python | \u2620 |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \u2620 |
| Perl | \x{2620} |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{2620} |
| Punycode | xn--r3h |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%98%A0 |
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