U+2620 SKULL AND CROSSBONES
U+2620 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as poison.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+2620 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “skull and crossbones” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: crossbones, death, face, monster, skull, skull and crossbones.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ☠️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
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 that warns of danger, 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 | 9760 |
| UTF-8 | E2 98 A0 |
| UTF-16 | 26 20 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 26 20 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%98%A0 |
| HTML-Escape | ☠ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â |
| alias | poison |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| SKULL AND CROSSBONES | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Skull and Crossbones | |
| ✘ | |
| Skull and Crossbones | |
| Skull and Crossbones | |
| ✘ | |
| Skull and Crossbones | |
| Skull and Crossbones | |
| Skull and Crossbones | |
| Skull and Crossbones | |
| Skull and Crossbones | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Skull and Crossbones | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Skull and Crossbones | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| Other | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Skull and Crossbones | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Skull and Crossbones | |
| U |