Meaning
A skull and crossbones symbol, often used to represent death, danger, poison, or pirates.
Category: Smileys & Emotion
☠️skull and crossbones
☠️ skull and crossbones belongs to Smileys & Emotion. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:skull_and_crossbones:
Keywords
bonecrossbonesdeaddeathfacemonsterskullskull and crossbones
What does ☠️ skull and crossbones mean?
The skull and crossbones emoji traditionally represents literal death, poison, or hazardous materials. It can also be used figuratively to express feeling completely exhausted, embarrassed, or 'dead' from laughter, similar to the standalone skull emoji. Additionally, it often appears in contexts related to pirates or Halloween.
Often used for
- Warning about poison or toxic substances
- Discussing pirates or pirate-themed media
- Expressing extreme exhaustion or feeling 'dead'
- Reacting to something so funny it 'killed' the sender
- Halloween or spooky decorations
Tone: Because it can represent literal death or danger, it may come across as overly intense in casual conversations if used out of context. It is generally safe in playful or dramatic contexts among friends.
☠️ in real messages
- that movie was so funny i'm dead ☠️
- cleaning out the garage today, rip me ☠️
- do not drink that stuff, it's basically poison ☠️
- going to the pirate festival this weekend ☠️
- i have three exams back to back tomorrow ☠️
Combos, text art & scenes with ☠️
Emoji combos
🏴☠️ → ☠️
Related text art & kaomoji
⋆༺𓆩☠︎︎𓆪༻⋆
☠︎︎
𓆩🖤𓆪🏴☠️☠💪🦅
You are in ohio 🏴☠️
⚠️☠️🚨
☠︎
☠︎︎ ⋆₊ ♱
⋆ ༺ 𓆩☠︎︎𓆪 ༻ ⋆
✮⋆˙ ☠︎︎ ★☠︎ ✮⋆˙
♡☠︎︎༒︎✞︎🕸𖤐
𓆩☠︎︎𓆪
☠︎︎༒︎✞︎🕸𖤐
How ☠️ skull and crossbones looks
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☠️ skull and crossbones codes for developers
Every format below produces ☠️ — click Copy on the one your stack needs.
| Emoji | ☠️ | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+2620 U+FE0F | |
| HTML (decimal) | ☠️ | |
| HTML (hex) | ☠️ | |
| CSS | \2620\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{2620}\u{FE0F} | |
| JSON | \u2620\uFE0F | |
| URL encoded | %E2%98%A0%EF%B8%8F | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :skull_and_crossbones: |
☠️ in other languages
Spanishcalavera y huesos cruzadosFrenchtête de mortGermanTotenkopf mit gekreuzten KnochenItalianteschio con ossa incrociatePortuguesecaveira e ossos cruzadosRussianчереп и костиJapaneseドクロと骨Korean해골과 뼈다귀Chinese骷髅Lithuaniankaukolė ir sukryžiuoti kaulaiPolishczaszka z piszczelami
Source: Unicode CLDR
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