About Skull And Crossbones
Skull And Crossbones is the Unicode character ☠️ at codepoint U+2620 in the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Skull And Crossbones
To use the Skull And Crossbones symbol (☠️) in HTML, insert the
entity ☠️ directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2620';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2620' evaluates to ☠️. In Python source, write '\u2620'.
The character encodes to E2 98 A0 as UTF-8 bytes and 2620 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9760.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.