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🏴☠️Pirate Flag Emoji
🏴☠️ pirate flag is encoded at U+1F3F4 U+200D U+2620 U+FE0F and shipped with Emoji 11.0 (2018). Unicode files it under Flags → Other Flags, alongside 7 related emojis.
What 🏴☠️ pirate flag means
Eight flags that belong to nobody in particular. 🏁 ends a race or a project, 🏳️ concedes an argument, and 🏴☠️ covers piracy in both senses. 🏳️🌈, built as a sequence joining the white flag to a rainbow, was added in Emoji 4.0 in 2016, with the transgender flag 🏳️⚧️ following in 2020. 🚩 now mostly warns about someone's behaviour rather than marking a spot.
Unicode tags this one flag, jolly and pirate and files it under Flags → Other Flags.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🏴☠️ is built
This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.
- 🏴U+1F3F4black flag
- ·U+200DZero-width joiner
- ☠U+2620skull and crossbones
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3F4 U+200D U+2620 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🏴‍☠️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🏴‍☠️ | |
| CSS | \1F3F4\200D\2620\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3F4}\u{200D}\u{2620}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F3F4\U0000200D\U00002620\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFF4\u200D\u2620\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f3f4}\u{200d}\u{2620}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3F4}\u{200D}\u{2620}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3F4}\u{200D}\u{2620}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8F%B4%E2%80%8D%E2%98%A0%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F B4 E2 80 8D E2 98 A0 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFF4 200D 2620 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+PtOKAjeKYoO+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 127988 8205 9760 65039 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 11.0 (2018) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🏴☠️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “pirate flag”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “flag”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3f4and Enter. - HTML — paste
🏴‍☠️.
How 🏴☠️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🏴☠️Apple
- 🏴☠️Segoe
- 🏴☠️Noto
- 🏴☠️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🏴☠️ pirate flag emoji mean?+
🏴☠️ is the pirate flag emoji, tagged flag, jolly and pirate. Eight flags that belong to nobody in particular. 🏁 ends a race or a project, 🏳️ concedes an argument, and 🏴☠️ covers piracy in both senses. 🏳️🌈, built as a sequence joining the white flag to a rainbow, was added in Emoji 4.0 in 2016, with the transgender flag 🏳️⚧️ following in 2020. 🚩 now mostly warns about someone's behaviour rather than marking a spot.
What is the Unicode code for 🏴☠️?+
pirate flag is U+1F3F4 U+200D U+2620 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🏴‍☠️, in CSS \1F3F4\200D\2620\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F3F4}\u{200D}\u{2620}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🏴☠️ emoji added?+
pirate flag got its emoji presentation in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Other Flags in Flags.
Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🏴☠️ pirate flag.