Skull Emoji
What does the Skull emoji mean?
A cartoon-style human skull, white with oversized black eye sockets. Often used as a symbol of death and a staple of Halloween celebrations. It can also be used to describe someone who is unhealthily thin.
The skull emoji is especially fitting during Halloween. It stands for death, but more often than not it's used figuratively rather than literally.
People might drop this grim face into a message to convey an exaggerated reaction like “I’m going to die” — typically in a joking way. It can also serve as a warning of danger, and sarcastic uses of the skull are pretty common.
Also Known As
- 💀 Death
- 💀 Grey Skull
- 💀 Skeleton
Apple Name
- 💀 Skull
Unicode Name
- 💀 Skull
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Skull emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
💀 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F480
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%92%80 |
| Punycode | xn--fr8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 92 80 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC80 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f480 |
| CSS | \01F480 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F480} |
| Perl | \x{1F480} |
| HTML hex | 💀 |
| HTML dec | 💀 |
Tags: death, face, fairy tale, monster, body, dead, fairy, fairytale, i’m, lmao, skull, tale, yolo
Category: Smileys & Emotion
Subgroup: Monsters & creatures