Skull and Crossbones Emoji
What does the Skull and Crossbones emoji mean?
A cartoon-style human skull with two crossed bones, commonly known as the Jolly Roger or the pirate flag. It’s also the universal symbol for poison, used to warn that a substance is hazardous to health and can cause serious injury or death.
A skull and crossbones, set in the classic criss-cross pattern. Borrowed from the pirate flag, this emoji is widely recognized as a symbol of danger and is commonly used to label toxic or poisonous substances.
Use this emoji to warn about deadly danger, poisons, or other hazardous materials.
Apple Name
- ☠️ Skull and Crossbones
Unicode Name
- ☠️ Skull and Crossbones
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Skull and Crossbones emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
☠️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+2620 U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%98%A0%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--h4h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 98 A0 EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u2620\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u2620\uFE0F |
| CSS | \2620 \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{2620}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{2620}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ☠️ |
| HTML dec | ☠️ |
Tags: crossbones, death, face, monster, skull, skull and crossbones, bone, dead
Category: Smileys & Emotion
Subgroup: Monsters & creatures