A grinning, grey-white human skull is the whole image here, and the skull emoji rarely means literal death. Instead it's shorthand for "I'm dead," meaning something is so funny it killed you, functioning as an exaggerated laugh reaction, and it can also mark something cringeworthy, embarrassing, or hard to watch.
What 💀 means
A greyish white animated version of the face of a human skull, with two big hollows for the eyes, a small one for the nose, with a grinning, toothed smile.
The 💀 Skull emoji signifies a feeling of being dead, dying, emotionless, lifeless. It can also mean feeling brain-dead or numb after a particular situation or conversation. It is mostly used in a comical way of saying "Oh.. boy, you're dead" or "Oh, feck, I'm dead".
How and when to use it
- If you've been dragging through some painful Monday blues, send this emoji to a close someone to show them that you're dead inside.
- This emoji can be used to describe someone who's thick-skulled, or in other words, thickly stupid.
- You can also use this emoji along with other emojis to personify the feeling of 'dying of laughter' or 'dying of hunger'.
- This emoji can also be used to show that you feel nothing (sad, but happens).
- If your attempts of slimming down is making you feel like a walking corpse, send this emoji to emote that.
- You could also use this emoji to bring in some excitement during Halloween and other deathly events.
Other Names
- 💀 Dead
- 💀 Halloween
- 💀 Bored to Death
- 💀 Dying
- 💀 Lifeless
- 💀 Numb
- 💀 Emotionless
- 💀 Death
- 💀 Skeleton
- 💀 Grey Skull
- 💀 Fear
- 💀 Thick Skulled
- 💀 Horror
💀 in real conversations
What does 💀 mean from a girl?
“I'm dead” — meaning that's hilarious. It's the modern LOL, not anything morbid. It also does duty for secondhand embarrassment: “I can't believe you said that 💀.”
What does 💀 mean from a guy?
Same laughing-to-death meaning, often more deadpan — a one-character reaction to something absurd or cringe. If a guy sends just 💀 to your joke, the joke landed.
What does 💀 mean in texting?
For a lot of younger texters it has fully replaced 😂 as the default laugh. Something was so funny (or so mortifying) that the sender is deceased. Actual death is almost never the subject.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-negative
- Codepoints
U+1F480- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:skull::skeleton:Discord- Keywords
- body, dead, death, face, fairy, fairytale, i’m, lmao, monster, skull, tale, yolo
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.
Pairs well with
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⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 💀 Skull or 🧶 Yarn?
Runs with a crowd
💀 keeps company in cool emojis and día de muertos emojis and halloween emojis and laughing emojis and skull emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.