U+1F571 Black Skull and Crossbones
U+1F571 was added in Unicode version 7.0 in 2014. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F571 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A skull and crossbones is a symbol consisting of a human skull and two long bones crossed together under or behind the skull. The design originated in the Late Middle Ages as a symbol of death and especially as a memento mori on tombstones.
In modern contexts, it is generally used as a hazard symbol, usually in regard to poisonous substances, such as deadly chemicals.
It is also associated with piracy and software piracy, due to its historical use in some Jolly Roger flags.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 128369 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 95 B1 |
| UTF-16 | D8 3D DD 71 |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F5 71 |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%95%B1 |
| HTML hex reference | 🕱 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🕱 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 7.0 (2014) | |
| BLACK SKULL AND CROSSBONES | |
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| Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Black Skull and Crossbones | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Skull and Crossbones | |
| Black Skull and Crossbones | |
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| Black Skull and Crossbones | |
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| Black Skull and Crossbones | |
| Any | |
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| None | |
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| NA | |
| Other | |
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| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Black Skull and Crossbones | |
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| Black Skull and Crossbones | |
| Yes | |
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| Black Skull and Crossbones | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Black Skull and Crossbones | |
| U |