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๐ Skull
Also known as: Death, Grey Skull, Skeleton
Unicode: U+1F480
Description
A whitish-gray, cartoon-styled human skull with large, black eye sockets. Commonly expresses figurative death, e.g., dying from extreme laughter, frustration, or affection. Popular around Halloween. Not to be confused with โ ๏ธ Skull and Crossbones, though their applications may overlap. Available as an Apple Animoji.
Image Variants

3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
deathfacefairy talemonsterskull
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :skull: | |
GitHub | :skull: | |
Slack | :skull: | |
Discord | :skull: | |
Discord | :skeleton: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Fairy tale symbols
Definition:
Aย human skull. Not to be confused with the skull and crossbones emoji. Skull was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji http://emojipedia.org/skull/
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
- Provoking fear terror
- Producing a fearful sensation.
- Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
- Causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin.
- Causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin
Verbs:
- Cause fear in
- To disturb with fear.
- To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
- Formerly, "be dead" was used instead of "have died" as the perfect tense of "die".
- 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:
- Part of the body at the front of the head
- The face is a central organ of sense and is also very central in the expression of emotion among humans and among numerous other species.
- Faces are the central sense organ complexes, for those animals that have one, normally on the ventral surface of the head.
- The front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
- The front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
- Skeleton
- The structure of a person's body.
- A rigid structure that is used to support something.
- A skeleton.
- Body part that forms the supporting structure of an organism
- The structure that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
- The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.