Meaning
Depicts a gravestone or headstone, often used to represent cemeteries, death, or memorials.
Category: Objects
🪦headstone
🪦 headstone belongs to Objects. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:headstone:
Keywords
cemeterydeadgravegraveyardmemorialriptombtombstoneheadstone
What does 🪦 headstone mean?
The headstone emoji shows a traditional grave marker, often inscribed with "RIP" or a cross. It is typically used to represent death, funerals, or visiting a cemetery. Depending on context, it can also be used metaphorically to say something is completely finished or "dead," though the skull emoji is more common for that.
Often used for
- Discussing funerals, burials, or memorial services
- Talking about visiting a graveyard or cemetery
- Referencing the death of a person, pet, or public figure
- Joking about something being completely over or canceled
Tone: Because it directly represents death and mourning, using it casually or jokingly can come across as insensitive depending on the conversation. It is best reserved for literal discussions of death or clearly hyperbolic contexts.
Illustrative message examples with 🪦
These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.
- heading to the cemetery to see grandma this afternoon 🪦
- my phone battery is officially dead 🪦
- did you hear about the actor who passed away? rip 🪦
- that project is in the graveyard now 🪦
- need to buy flowers for the funeral tomorrow 🪦
Combos, text art & scenes with 🪦
How 🪦 headstone looks
Appearance varies by device and platform — your system font draws the native version below.
OpenMoji artwork CC BY-SA 4.0 — see attributions.
🪦 headstone codes for developers
Every format below produces 🪦 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.
| Emoji | 🪦 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+1FAA6 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🪦 | |
| HTML (hex) | 🪦 | |
| CSS | \1FAA6 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAA6} | |
| JSON | \uD83E\uDEA6 | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AA%A6 | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :headstone: |
🪦 in other languages
SpanishlápidaFrenchpierre tombaleGermanGrabsteinItalianlapidePortugueselápideRussianнадгробиеJapanese墓石Korean묘비Chinese墓碑LithuanianpaminklasPolishnagrobek
Source: Unicode CLDR
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