☠️ Skull and crossbones emoji
HTML
☠
Unicode
U+2620
What is ☠️ called?
☠️ is called the Skull and crossbones emoji.
Often called the poison symbol or death warning. It is associated with the Jolly Roger because pirate flags commonly use the motif, although ☠️ by itself is not a complete flag.
What does ☠️ mean?
☠️ combines a skull with crossed bones as a warning of poison, toxic danger, or death. It also evokes pirates, piracy, grave danger, and old hazard labels.
The symbol alone is not a pirate flag; the Jolly Roger is a flag design that commonly places a skull and crossbones on a dark field. In safety contexts, take its warning sense literally rather than as decoration.
Other meanings
Poison, toxicity, lethal risk, pirates, a deadly threat, or a joking warning that food, work, or a situation is dangerously bad.
Example Usage
Warning: toxic chemicals are stored here ☠️
The children made a pirate flag for the treasure hunt ☠️
More details
Officially named skull and crossbones. Its base code point is U+2620, commonly followed by U+FE0F for emoji presentation, and it is recorded from Emoji 1.0. Modern regulated hazard systems may use different standard pictograms.
Visual description
A pale skull positioned above or in front of two long bones crossed diagonally into an X.
The presentation may be monochrome, outlined, or placed on a platform-specific background. The crossed bones distinguish it from the standalone 💀 Skull.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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