Skull and Crossbones

☠️ Skull and Crossbones is one of the negative faces in Unicode's Smileys & Emotion group. In practice it comes up around bone, crossbones, dead and death. Further official keywords are face, monster and skull.

You can drop ☠️ into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. Added in 2015 with Emoji 1.0, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+2620.

• A single ☠️ is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about bone, crossbones, dead and death.
• Often seen near 💀 Skull, 😈 Smiling Face with Horns and 👿 Angry Face with Horns.

• ☠️💀 – Skull and Crossbones and Skull
• ☠️😈 – Skull and Crossbones with Smiling Face with Horns
• ☠️👿 – Skull and Crossbones plus Angry Face with Horns
• ☠️😤 – Skull and Crossbones and Face with Steam from Nose
• ☠️😡 – Skull and Crossbones with Enraged Face
• ☠️🤬 – Skull and Crossbones plus Face with Symbols on Mouth
• ☠️😠 – Skull and Crossbones and Angry Face

Easy to mix up with 💀 Skull, 😈 Smiling Face with Horns or 👿 Angry Face with Horns. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.