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⚰️ Coffin
Also known as: Casket, Funeral
Unicode: U+26B0, U+FE0F
Description
A traditional coffin, as used to bury the dead. Depicted at various angles as a closed, six-sided, wooden coffin, tapered at the head and foot with golden handles. Commonly used for various content concerning literal and figurative death. May also be used for various content concerning funerals, horror, and Halloween. Apple and Microsoft’s designs place flowers on their lids.
Image Variants

3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:4.1
Keywords
coffindeath
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :coffin: | |
GitHub | :coffin: | |
Slack | :coffin: | |
Discord | :coffin: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols -> Genealogical symbols
Definition:
A wooden coffin, used to store the body of a deceased person. Coffin was approved as part of Unicode 4.1 in 2005 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2 http://emojipedia.org/coffin/
Adjectives:
- Not alive; lacking life.
- Figuratively, not alive.
- Figuratively, not alive; lacking life
- No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
Verbs:
- Place into a coffin
- To cease to live.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To die; to cease to live.
- To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Nouns:
- Death is the permanent end of the life of a biological organism.
- The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
- Death is the termination of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.
- The event of dying or departure from life
- Permanent cessation of life
- The cessation of life and all associated processes.
- The permanent cessation of all biological functions that sustain a particular living organism
- Departure, especially departure from this life
- Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
- A cemetery.
- Place of burial
- A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.