Headstone 🪦

Meaning

The 🪦 Headstone emoji depicts a gray tombstone or gravestone, often with "RIP" inscribed, used to mark burial sites in cemeteries. It symbolizes death, mourning, remembrance, and finality, appearing in various designs across platforms. Approved in Unicode 13.0 (2020), it conveys literal or metaphorical endings.

People commonly use this emoji to express grief over loss, commemorate the deceased, discuss mortality, indicate something is "dead" (e.g., a failed project), or add spooky elements to Halloween messages.

Keywords

headstone emoji, tombstone emoji, graveyard emoji, rip emoji, cemetery emoji, grave emoji, death emoji

• Category: Object
• Added: Oct 29, 2025