In discussions about social networks, Internet users can no longer do without emojis. Whether it's to show love, to make people laugh, to tell scary things, etc. For this reason, these small symbols exist in various forms. Almost all things in the real world exist in an emoticon version. In this article, we tell you about the skull emoji 💀, its origin, its meaning, how to use it in a sentence, and finally its characteristics.
Origin of this emoji 💀
This emoji is from a 2007 and 2009 proposal, the details of which are presented below:
Proposal number 1 from 💀
- Number : L2/07-257
- Last name : Working Draft Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols (Associated tables in ZIP file)
- Proposed by : Markus Scherer, Kat Momoi, Mark Davis,
- Year of proposal: 2007
- Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
- Case : No.257, 2007 HTML: EMOJI WD / No.257, 2007 ZIP: EMOJI WD TABLE
Proposal number 2 from 💀
- Number : L2/09-026
- Last name : Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
- Proposed by : Kat Momoi, Markus Scherer, Mark Davis, Yasuo Kida, Peter Edberg (Apple Inc.), Darick Tong (Google Inc.)
- Year of proposal: 2009
- Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
- Case : No.026, 2009 PDF: R EMOJI PROPOSED / No.026, 2009 PDF: EMOJI PROPOSED
Proposal L2/07‑257(2007), L2/09‑026(2009) was approved by the Unicode Consortium and in 2015-06-02 it was released as Emoji version 1.0.
Meanings and uses of the smiley 💀
When it comes to smileys that connote death, the skull emoji is one of the most popular and widely used by Internet users. It's simply represented by a human skull whose forms vary from one messaging service to another, from one cwhite or grayish color. The skull is marked by a more or less hollow facetwo large, deep orbits and an differently shaped jaw platforms (more detailed on Facebook than on Twitter, for example), and more or less visible teeth.
This emoji is most often used to express death, frustration, danger, fear, etc.horroramong others. It looks a bit like the skull and crossbones emoji ☠️, but the meaning is not quite the same. Although primarily used as a symbol of doom, this emoji can also be used hyperbolically or ironically to convey a state of extreme fatigue, both mentally and physically. It can also be used to say that a person is so thin as to have hollow cheeks.
In addition, the skull emoji can also express the weariness of a boring situation that seems endless or to translate a harbinger of misfortune.
Here are two examples of using this emoji in a sentence:
- I can't take it anymore, I'm at the end of my life 💀.
- When is it going to end, it's too long 💀.
The characteristics of this emoji 💀
Among the emojis used to talk about death, fatigue and those most used during the Halloween party, we find the skull emoji 💀, whose characteristics are presented in detail in the table below:
| Version | 1.0 (2015-06-09) |
| Usual name | skull |
| Category | Smilies and Emotions |
| Sub-category | face-negative |
| Apple designation | Skull |
| code point | U+1F480 Copy |
| Decimal | ALT+128128 |
| unicode | 6.0 (2010-10-11) |
| Key words | Skull-body-dead-fantasy |
| Other names | · Gloomy Emoji;
· Grim Emoji; · Deadly Emoji; · stiff emoji. |
As you can see, the skull emoji 💀 isn't just for talking about death, you can also use it ironically in your messages! And don't miss out on discovering what means the 😣 emoji among our articles!
