☠️ Skull and Crossbones emoji

Copy the ☠️ Skull and Crossbones emoji (2 code points), a Smileys & Emotion emoji from Emoji 1.0 (2015), with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes.

CLDR name: skull and crossbones
Code points: U+2620 U+FE0F
Type: Character plus emoji variation selector
Group: Smileys & Emotion
Subgroup: Face negative
Introduced: Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Text form: ☠ (U+2620)
Keywords: bone, crossbones, dead, death, face, monster, skull

About this emoji

☠️ Skull and Crossbones is an emoji in the Smileys & Emotion group, face negative subgroup, first released in Emoji 1.0 (2015).

CLDR, the Unicode project that supplies emoji names in many languages, gives it the English keywords bone, crossbones, dead, death, face, monster and skull; that is what emoji keyboards match when you search.

It is the character ☠ (U+2620 SKULL AND CROSSBONES) followed by the variation selector U+FE0F, which asks for the colourful emoji style. Without the selector, many systems show a plain text symbol instead.

Codes to copy

HTML decimal	`☠️`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`☠️`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\2620 \FE0F";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u2620\uFE0F"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u2620\ufe0f"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{SKULL AND CROSSBONES}\N{VARIATION SELECTOR-16}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%E2%98%A0%EF%B8%8F`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 98 A0 EF B8 8F`6 bytes in all.
UTF-16	`2620 FE0F`2 code units, which is what JavaScript length counts.

What it is made of

Code point	Shows as	Unicode name
`U+2620`	☠	SKULL AND CROSSBONES
`U+FE0F`	invisible	VARIATION SELECTOR-16

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