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☠️ Skull and Crossbones
Unicode: U+2620, U+FE0F
Description
A cartoon human skull atop an X-shaped pair of bones, as on a pirate flag or poison symbol. Samsung’s design previously displayed a skull and crossbones on a yellow triangle, indicating a hazardous material. May represent various ideas of death or danger, e.g., dying from laughter or killing it with great skill. May also represent various pirate characters or mascots. Popular around Halloween. Not to be confused with 💀 Skull, though their applications may overlap.
Image Variants
3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:1.1
Keywords
crossbonesdeathfacemonsterskullskull and crossbones
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :skull_and_crossbones: | |
| GitHub | :skull_and_crossbones: | |
| Slack | :skull_and_crossbones: | |
| Discord | :skull_crossbones: | |
| Discord | :skull_and_crossbones: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols -> Warning signs
Definition:
A human skull shown above a crossed pair of bones. Used as a symbol of death, and often as a danger warning on poisenous substances. Not to http://emojipedia.org/skull-and-crossbones/
Adjectives:
- Provoking fear terror
- Fatal, causing death.
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
- Subject to death; mortal.
- Causing death or having the ability to cause death.
- Deadly; mortal; fatal.
- Causing or capable of causing death
Verbs:
- To imperil; to endanger.
- To run the risk.
- To use poison to kill or paralyse somebody
- Kill with poison
- To use poison to kill or paralyse.
Nouns:
- An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger.
- Fear is an emotion induced by a threat perceived by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately a change in behavior, such as running away, hiding or freezing from traumatic events.
- Uncountable: emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- Basic emotion induced by a perceived threat
- Associated with dread, an emotion
- A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- Fear is a basic emotional sensation and response system initiated by an aversion to some perceived risk or threat.
- A content descriptor developed by the Pan European Gaming Information (PEGI) and the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).
- The skull is a bony structure in the head of most vertebrates that supports the structures of the face and forms a protective cavity for the brain.
- Bony structure in the head
- The bony framework of the head.