🩻X-ray Emoji
Generally, it means someone wants to show a very detailed or intimate image, usually sexually. It’s often used for playful innuendo.
Also searched as skull emoji
The 🩻 emoji is a medical x-ray image.
- Unicode
- U+1FA7B
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :x-ray:
- Skin tones
- No
⚠️ Added in Emoji 14.0. On phones older than iOS 16 / Android 13 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
What does the 🩻 X-ray emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as skeleton skull emoji, skull bones emoji.
X-ray emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the x-ray as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
X-ray emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :x-ray:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1FA7B.
How to type the 🩻 X-ray emoji
No picker to hand? The x-ray can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
X-ray emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
X-ray emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around x-ray for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🩻, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🩻 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🩻 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the x-ray lands changes how it is taken.
🩻 vs 🤯 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: X-ray
Code: U+1FA7B · added 2021
Shortcode: :x-ray:
Generally, it means someone wants to show a very detailed or intimate image, usually sexually.
Unicode name: Exploding Head
Code: U+1F92F · added 2017
Shortcode: :exploding_head:
Basically, it means something is so shocking or amazing that it feels like your mind is exploding.
Where the 🩻 X-ray emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 14.0, the x-ray has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 5.
Same character every time — U+1FA7B never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
X-ray was approved as U+1FA7B and shipped in Emoji 14.0 (2021). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🩻 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.