☠ Skull and Crossbones Emoji

poison

U+2620

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Technical information

Name	Skull and Crossbones
Unicode number	U+2620
HTML-code	☠
CSS-code	\2620
Block	Miscellaneous Symbols
Unicode version:	1.1 (1993)
Emoji version:	1.0 (2015)
Emoji category:	Smileys & Emotion
Emoji subcategory:	Angry face

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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».

Skull and Crossbones was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский; Español;

Properties

Age	1.1
Block	Miscellaneous Symbols
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case Folding	2620
Simple Case Folding	2620

Angry face

Encoding

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