Skull And Crossbones
Skull And Crossbones has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ☠
- Unicode
- U+2620
About this symbol
The skull and crossbones has warned of death for centuries. Pirates flew it on their flags in the early eighteenth century, and by the 1800s it was printed on bottles of poison. It is still the standard hazard symbol for toxic substances.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SKULL AND CROSSBONES
- Also called
- Poison
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Warning signs
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- 🕱 Black Skull And Crossbones U+1F571
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