Skull And Crossbones Emoji ☠

U+2620

Emoji Meaning

A skull with two crossed bones means death or mortal danger. Such a symbol is depicted on a sign warning of a minefield or chemical contamination. Pirates painted something similar on their flags and called it “Jolly Roger”.

The symbol “Skull And Crossbones” is included in the “Warning signs” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Angry Face” subcategory of the “Smileys & Emotion” category.

This text is also available in: Español; Русский;

Synonyms

poison.

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Unicode Name	Skull and Crossbones
Unicode Number
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Miscellaneous Symbols
Unicode Subblock	Warning signs
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Emoji Version	1.0 (2015)
Emoji Category	Smileys & Emotion
Emoji Subcategory	Angry Face
Emoji Name	Skull And Crossbones

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	2620
Simple case change	2620
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Pattern_Syntax	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 98 A0	226 152 160	14850208	11100010 10011000 10100000
UTF-16BE	26 20	38 32	9760	00100110 00100000
UTF-16LE	20 26	32 38	8230	00100000 00100110
UTF-32BE	00 00 26 20	0 0 38 32	9760	00000000 00000000 00100110 00100000
UTF-32LE	20 26 00 00	32 38 0 0	539361280	00100000 00100110 00000000 00000000