⚰️ Coffin

Unicode lists ⚰️ Coffin among the everyday objects in the Objects group. In practice it comes up around dead, death and vampire.

Worth knowing: ⚰️ carries a second, informal reading. In chats it often means something other than the literal picture – our overview of double meaning emojis explains which one.

⚰️ fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Symbols and Signs. It joined the standard with Emoji 1.0 in 2015, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+26B0.

• ⚰️ works as a one-character reply when dead is the subject.
• Fits messages about dead, death and vampire.
• Often seen near 🪦 Headstone, 🚬 Cigarette and ⚱️ Funeral Urn.

Online the coffin is rarely used literally; it serves as an escalation of 💀: “I died laughing, put me in the box”. That sequence – skull, then coffin – settled in around 2021.

Ghana has an art form of its own in the abebuu adekai: figurative fantasy coffins shaped like fish, aeroplanes or cocoa pods, representing the profession or passion of the person who died.

• ⚰️🗿 – Coffin and Moai
• ⚰️🪧 – Coffin with Placard
• ⚰️🪬 – Coffin plus Hamsa
• ⚰️🪦 – Coffin and Headstone
• ⚰️🪪 – Coffin with Identification Card
• ⚰️🚬 – Coffin plus Cigarette
• ⚰️🧿 – Coffin and Nazar Amulet
• ⚰️⚱️ – Coffin with Funeral Urn

Easy to mix up with 🪦 Headstone, 🚬 Cigarette or ⚱️ Funeral Urn. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.