Skull and crossbones
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- Shortcode
:skull_and_crossbones:- Unicode
U+2620- HTML
☠- CSS
\2620- JavaScript
"\u{2620}"- URL
%E2%98%A0%EF%B8%8F
What ☠️ means
A skull over crossed bones: danger, poison, death or piracy.
Used for warnings, toxic things, pirate themes and Halloween. Some people also use it like 💀 to say they are dead from laughter or exhaustion, though with a darker, more dramatic look.
Facts
Skull and crossbones ☠️ is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face negative. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. One other emoji uses it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :skull_and_crossbones:. People also look for it with words like “bone”, “crossbones”, “dead”, or “death”.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)
- 2018New emoji built from it (Emoji 11.0)🏴☠️
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.