Skull And Crossbones Emoji ☠
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.
Synonyms
poison.
| Unicode Name | Skull and Crossbones |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| 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 |
