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U+1F480
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The 💀 skull emoji, explained
The skull emoji shows a plain white human skull — no crossbones. Unicode named it simply SKULL when it arrived in 2010, intending it for death, danger and the macabre.
Today its meaning has flipped almost entirely. Across TikTok, Instagram and group chats, 💀 is the shorthand for “I'm dead” — something so funny it killed you. It has quietly overtaken 😂 as the default laughing reaction for a whole generation, while still keeping its spooky and “dead tired” uses alive.
Official nameSkull (Unicode SKULL)
UnicodeU+1F480 · added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Everyday meaning“I'm dead” — extreme laughter
GroupSmileys & Emotion
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