🏴☠️
What 🏴☠️ means
A 🏴 Black Flag printed with a ☠️ Skull and Crossbones symbol on it. First off, the 🏴☠️ Pirate Flag emoji represents the pirate captains of the earlier times. Also known as the Jolly Roger, this emoji could also symbolize attack or revelation.
How and when to use it
- Pirate flags were essentially a well-read sign of piracy if you will. Hence, in the modern context, while referring to anything that's pirated, feel free to drop in the emoji-version of the Jolly Roger, 🏴☠️.
- Similarly, even while speaking about robbing things, 🏴☠️ would come in handy. Like, "She literally robbed him of all his emotional strength 🏴☠️", "They robbed the enemy completely 🏴☠️ Now, tell me, is there good and bad?", or "Seems like a rigid case of software piracy 🏴☠️".
- You could also use 🏴☠️ while referring to danger, but the kind of danger that stems from untrustworthiness. For example, "I think it would be a blunder to trust him after witnessing his deceptive history 🏴☠️".
- Pirates looted other ships, thus "capturing" their belongings, in a sense. So if 'capture' is part of the post/repost/caption/text message you're sharing, you could add 🏴☠️ to the scene.
Other Names
- 🏴☠️ Jolly Roger
- 🏴☠️ Piracy
- 🏴☠️ Pirate
- 🏴☠️ Black Flag With Skull and Crossbones
- 🏴☠️ The Golden Age of Piracy
- 🏴☠️ Pirate Boats
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › flag
- Codepoints
U+1F3F4 U+200D U+2620 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:pirate_flag:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- flag, Jolly, pirate, plunder, Roger, treasure
- How it's built
- Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🏴☠️ Pirate Flag or ☠️ Skull and Crossbones?