Pirate flag emoji 🏴☠️
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F3F4 U+200D U+2620 U+FE0F
What 🏴☠️ means
Pirate flag 🏴☠️ goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: flag, Jolly, pirate, plunder, Roger, treasure.
Those words also drive emoji search: try flag or Jolly on your phone to find 🏴☠️.
On the emoji keyboard, 🏴☠️ sits with the flags (8 emoji) inside flags, which has 270 emoji, for example 🏁 🚩 🎌 🏴.
Will 🏴☠️ show on my friend's phone?
🏴☠️ dates from Emoji 11.0 (2018). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
What 🏴☠️ is made of
Technically 🏴☠️ is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): 🏴 black flag + ☠️ skull and crossbones. Older phones show them one after the other.
How to type 🏴☠️
To find 🏴☠️ quickly, type pirate flag into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type pirate flag.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type pirate flag in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type pirate flag.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🏴☠️ as 4 code points, U+1F3F4 U+200D U+2620 U+FE0F: 13 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 5 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F3F4 U+200D U+2620 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🏴‍☠️ | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🏴‍☠️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F3F4 \200D \2620 \FE0F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3F4}\u200D\u2620\uFE0F | |
| URL | %F0%9F%8F%B4%E2%80%8D%E2%98%A0%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F B4 E2 80 8D E2 98 A0 EF B8 8F |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🏴☠️ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | pirate flag |
| Português | bandeira de pirata |
| Español | bandera pirata |
| Italiano | bandiera dei pirati |
| Français | drapeau de pirate |
| Deutsch | Piratenflagge |
| Türkçe | korsan bayrağı |
| Bahasa Indonesia | bendera bajak laut |
| Polski | piracka flaga |
| Русский | пиратский флаг |
| 日本語 | 海賊旗 |
| 한국어 | 해적 깃발 |
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All flags emoji →Questions people ask
What does the pirate flag emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🏴☠️ "pirate flag" and links it with flag, Jolly, pirate, plunder. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the flags subgroup of flags.
When was the pirate flag emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 show it.
Why does 🏴☠️ sometimes show as separate emoji?
It is a combination of 🏴 ☠️ joined by an invisible zero width joiner. Phones that do not know the combined emoji yet show the pieces one by one.