☠️ Skull and Crossbones
The ☠️ Skull and Crossbones emoji (U+2620 U+FE0F) is part of the Smileys category, where it sits in the Face Negative group alongside 4 related emojis. It is tagged with the keywords death, pirate, and poison, which captures how people actually use it: when someone wants to express death in a message, caption, or comment, ☠️ is one of the glyphs they reach for, and it also carries connotations of pirate, and poison. Like every emoji, the Skull and Crossbones renders slightly differently on Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft devices because each platform draws its own artwork, but the underlying Unicode code point U+2620 U+FE0F is identical everywhere, so the meaning travels even when the pixels change. On this page you can copy the ☠️ emoji with one click and paste it into any app that accepts Unicode text — chats, social posts, emails, and documents. Emojis most closely related to ☠️ in the Face Negative group include 😈 Smiling Face with Horns, 👿 Angry Face with Horns, 💀 Skull, 😳 Flushed Face, and it is frequently combined with 😈 Smiling Face with Horns and 👿 Angry Face with Horns in messages. The Smileys category contains 89 emojis in total on Emoji Reference.