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💀Skull Emoji
Unicode added 💀 skull in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under Smileys & Emotion → Negative. Its codepoint is U+1F480, and it is tagged body, dead and death.
What 💀 skull 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 body, dead and death and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Negative.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F480 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 💀 | |
| HTML decimal | 💀 | |
| CSS | \1F480 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F480} | |
| Python | \U0001F480 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC80 | |
| Rust | \u{1f480} | |
| Swift | \u{1F480} | |
| PHP | \u{1F480} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%92%80 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 92 80 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC80 | |
| Base64 | 8J+SgA== | |
| Decimal | 128128 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 💀
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “skull”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “body”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f480and 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 emoji mean?+
💀 is the skull emoji, tagged body, dead and death. 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 is U+1F480. In HTML that is 💀, in CSS \1F480, and in JavaScript \u{1F480}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 💀 emoji added?+
skull got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Negative in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 💀 skull.