skull

Group: Smileys & emotion · Subgroup: Face negative · Emoji 0.6

Keywords

body
dead
death
face
fairy
fairytale
i’m
lmao
monster
tale
yolo

About this character

skull belongs to the Smileys & emotion group and is encoded at U+1F480. It was added in Unicode 0.6.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F480
Hex: 1F480
Decimal: 128128
HTML: 💀
CSS: \1F480
JavaScript: \u{1F480}
Python: \U0001F480
UTF-8: F0 9F 92 80

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

face with steam from nose U+1F624 Similar
enraged face U+1F621 Similar
angry face U+1F620 Similar
face with symbols on mouth U+1F92C Similar
smiling face with horns U+1F608 Similar
angry face with horns U+1F47F Similar
skull and crossbones U+2620 Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.