Symbols · StatusU+2620 · Miscellaneous Symbols
☠
Skull and Crossbones
U+2620 · decimal 9760 · Miscellaneous Symbols
Every way to write it
6 formsHTML entity
☠
This character has no named entity, so the numeric form is the one to use.
CSS content
\2620
For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.
JavaScript
\u2620
Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.
Python
\u2620
The escape for a Python string literal.
URL
%E2%98%A0
Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.
UTF-8 bytes
E2 98 A0
3 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.
Typing it without copying
system pickermacOS
Control + Command + Space, then search skull and crossbones
Windows
Character Map or Alt + 9760
Groups it belongs to
Characters near it
8Code pointU+2620
EntityNumeric
UTF-83 bytes
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