Copy the most used skull emojis in one click — 💀 ☠️ 🦴 👻 — with their meaning, Unicode and HTML codes, and keyboard shortcuts for Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android.
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Skull emojis range from the classic skull to the skull and crossbones, a lone bone and a ghost. Click any emoji to copy it instantly.
Each skull emoji has a distinct meaning depending on context — dark humour, danger, death or Halloween. The definitions below reflect common usage on WhatsApp, TikTok and Instagram.
Skull emoji sequences ready to copy and paste to express dark humour, danger or Halloween vibes in your messages.
Technical codes for each skull emoji: Unicode code point and HTML entity for use in web development.
| Emoji | Name | Unicode | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skull |
U+1F480
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💀
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| Skull and crossbones |
U+2620
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☠
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| Bone |
U+1F9B4
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🦴
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| Ghost |
U+1F47B
|
👻
|
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| Jack-o-lantern |
U+1F383
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🎃
|
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| Coffin |
U+26B0
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⚰
|
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| Funeral urn |
U+26B1
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⚱
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| Headstone |
U+1FAA6
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🪦
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| Zombie |
U+1F9DF
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🧟
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| Black heart |
U+1F5A4
|
🖤
|
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| Kitchen knife |
U+1F52A
|
🔪
|
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| Crossed swords |
U+2694
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⚔
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| Candle |
U+1F56F
|
🕯
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Press Cmd + Ctrl + Space to open the macOS emoji picker. Search for the emoji you want and double-click to insert it.
Open the emoji keyboard (smiley or globe icon on iPhone, emoji icon on Android). Browse the Symbols section or use the search bar.
Press Win + . (Windows key + full stop) to open the built-in emoji panel. Search for any emoji directly from any application.
The 💀 emoji (U+1F480, "Skull") shows a stylised white human skull. Originally associated with death and danger, its usage has completely evolved on social media. Since the 2010s and especially with TikTok, 💀 has become one of the most popular ways to say "I'm dead from laughing" — an evolution of the classic LOL. The more uncontrollable the laughter, the more 💀 is used instead of 😂.
On WhatsApp and Instagram, 💀 can also mean a situation is "deadly" in a figurative sense — a song that's too good, a devastating joke or a brutal truth. In video games, it literally represents the death of a character.
💀 (plain skull) is the modern emoji for dying of laughter and dark humour on social media. ☠️ (skull and crossbones) is more symbolic — it evokes danger, toxicity, pirates or serious death. ☠️ is inherited from the universally recognised symbol found on dangerous products and pirate flags.
In practice, 💀 is used casually and humorously, while ☠️ is more dramatic and connotes danger or real death. Both work on WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter/X and all modern platforms.
Yes. 💀, ☠️, 👻, 🎃 and all emojis on this page are standard Unicode characters that work on WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter/X, Snapchat, Discord, Telegram, Gmail and Outlook.
Appearance may vary slightly by platform — Apple displays 💀 with a rounder style, Google with a more cartoon look — but the copied character is identical everywhere. Click any emoji to copy it and paste it directly into your message.