Skull

Meaning and uses

The skull emoji. Besides death and Halloween, people use it to say they are dead from laughing, the online way of calling something extremely funny.

Unicode details

💀 is the Unicode character named SKULL, code point U+1F480, in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. It was added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is an emoji, listed under the name “skull”, so phones and most apps draw it in colour, and each platform has its own design.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type 💀

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “skull”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “skull”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 1f480, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use 💀. In a CSS content property, use "\1F480".