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☠️Skull And Crossbones Emoji

Tagged bone, crossbones and dead, ☠️ skull and crossbones sits in Unicode's Negative group inside Smileys & Emotion. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0 (2015) at U+2620 U+FE0F.

What ☠️ skull and crossbones means

Anger and its endpoints. 😤 reads as smug determination as often as frustration, 🤬 (Unicode calls it face with symbols on mouth) stands in for swearing, and 💀 has largely escaped its literal meaning - for a lot of users it now means something was funny enough to kill them, a job 😂 used to do.

Unicode tags this one bone, crossbones and dead and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Negative.

Copy variants

skull and crossbones carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How ☠️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

☠U+2620skull and crossbones
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+2620 U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`☠️`
HTML decimal	`☠️`
CSS	`\2620\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{2620}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U00002620\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u2620\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{2620}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{2620}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{2620}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%98%A0%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 98 A0 EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`2620 FE0F`
Base64	`4pig77iP`
Decimal	`9760 65039`
Introduced	Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Keywords

bone
crossbones
dead
death
face
monster
skull

Appears in these collections

How to type ☠️

Windows — press Win + . and search “skull and crossbones”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bone”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 2620 and 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 ☠️ skull and crossbones emoji mean?+

☠️ is the skull and crossbones emoji, tagged bone, crossbones and dead. Anger and its endpoints. 😤 reads as smug determination as often as frustration, 🤬 (Unicode calls it face with symbols on mouth) stands in for swearing, and 💀 has largely escaped its literal meaning - for a lot of users it now means something was funny enough to kill them, a job 😂 used to do.

What is the Unicode code for ☠️?+

skull and crossbones is U+2620 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ☠️, in CSS \2620\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2620}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ☠️ emoji added?+

skull and crossbones got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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.

Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ☠️ skull and crossbones.