U+1F571 "🕱" Black Skull and Crossbones Unicode Character

U+1F571 "🕱" Black Skull and Crossbones is a typographic symbol depicting a human skull positioned above two crossed bones, entirely filled in black, and it is distinct from the more common and brightly colored warning emoji (U+2620 ☠️). Initially encoded in Unicode 7.0 in 2014 as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, this specific glyph is designed for use as a plain, often monochrome, icon rather than a vibrant emoji. Its primary association is with representations of toxicity, poison, death, or lethal hazard, frequently appearing in labeling for hazardous materials, chemical containers, and digital interfaces where a neutral or text-compatible symbol is preferred over a colorful graphic.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F571
Version Added	7.0
Name	Black Skull and Crossbones
Block	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	🕱
HTML Hex Encoding	🕱
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDD71
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F571
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udd71

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other