☠️ Skull and Crossbones

A cartoon human skull atop an X-shaped pair of bones, as on a pirate flag or poison symbol. Samsung’s design previously displayed a skull and crossbones on a yellow triangle, indicating a hazardous material. May repre...

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Meaning

A cartoon human skull atop an X-shaped pair of bones, as on a pirate flag or poison symbol. Samsung’s design previously displayed a skull and crossbones on a yellow triangle, indicating a hazardous material.

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.

How it is made

What your keyboard actually sends, one code point at a time. Pick a skin tone above and watch it change.

U+2620 + U+FE0F

Codes

Paste-ready codes that all produce this same character. Tap a row to copy.

HTML entity
☠️
HTML decimal
☠️
CSS
\2620\FE0F
JavaScript
\u{2620}\u{FE0F}
URL-encoded
%E2%98%A0%EF%B8%8F

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