Goth symbols copy and paste starts with †, a footnote mark Unicode names dagger. Much of the rest is borrowed: ⚰︎ is a genealogy sign for buried, ⛓︎ a road sign for tyre chains, 𖤐 a Bamum letter from Cameroon.
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Flat symbols, then black emoji
Gothic symbols copy and paste begins in Goth symbols: 29 characters that take your text colour, most from Miscellaneous Symbols and Dingbats. Black emoji copy and paste starts at 🖤, with all 11 emoji that CLDR, Unicode's list of emoji search words, files under black. Goth emoji copy and paste is the third group, from 🦇 to 🐺.
Gothic text symbols are two things
Gothic text symbols are two things. The Unicode block named Gothic is the alphabet of the Gothic language, and three of its 27 letters close the first group. Gothic type is blackletter, which Unicode has as Fraktur in Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols: Words in gothic letters has eight, but there are no Fraktur digits and this page cannot set your own word.
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Goth symbol copy and paste for a name: † name † or nine others, then type over the word name.
Dark symbols copy and paste: type dark in the search box for 25 entries, or black for 40.
Text style asks for flat emoji. The black squares and card suits obeyed when checked; the spider stayed in colour.
Questions and answers
Is there a goth emoji?
No. CLDR files no emoji under goth or gothic, so goth emojis copy and paste is a matter of taste. Ours is 18 emoji, the bat first, and 13 combos such as 🖤🥀. CLDR does file 🦇 and ⚰️ under vampire.
Which gothic symbols copy paste as plain text?
The 29 in the first group and the nine dark shapes. Eight, such as ☠︎ and ⛓︎, have emoji forms too, so their tiles add U+FE0E, which asks for the flat one. The turned dagger, U+2E38, drew as a box and is left out.
How many black emojis are there?
Eleven, by CLDR's search word black. Unicode names 355 characters black, meaning filled in: the red heart's name is heavy black heart. For black emojis copy and paste, 🖤 is the sure one: unequivocally represented as black in all variants, says the names list.
🜏Alchemical symbol for black sulfurU+1F70F Alchemical symbol for black sulfur. Alchemical Symbols block, Unicode 6.0. The names list also gives sulfur nigra and dye. Older fonts lack the whole block.
☥AnkhU+2625 Ankh. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. Its Unicode name is all the names list gives it.
𖤐Bamum letter ngkeuriU+16910 Bamum letter phase-d ngkeuri. Bamum Supplement block, Unicode 6.0. Not a pentagram by name. It is a letter from an early stage of the Bamum script of Cameroon, and it is here for its shape.
♚Black chess kingU+265A Black chess king. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. The other crown.
♛Black chess queenU+265B Black chess queen. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. A crown with no emoji colour.
♜Black chess rookU+265C Black chess rook. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. The nearest thing to a castle tower in plain text.
⛓︎ChainsU+26D3 Chains. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 5.2. Less gothic than it looks: the names list glosses it as tyre chains required, a road sign. Has an emoji form too, so it is copied with U+FE0E, the selector that keeps it as plain text.
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Goth symbols, continued
⚰︎CoffinU+26B0 Coffin. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 4.1. A genealogy sign. The names list glosses it as buried. Has an emoji form too, so it is copied with U+FE0E, the selector that keeps it as plain text.
⚔︎Crossed swordsU+2694 Crossed swords. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 4.1. The names list glosses it as a military term: battleground on maps, and killed in action. Has an emoji form too, so it is copied with U+FE0E, the selector that keeps it as plain text.
†DaggerU+2020 Dagger. General Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. A footnote mark: by Wikipedia's account it usually comes after the asterisk, and it also marks a death. The Unicode names list also calls it obelisk and long cross.
‡Double daggerU+2021 Double dagger. General Punctuation block, Unicode 1.1. By the same account it usually marks a third footnote. The names list also calls it diesis and double obelisk.
♱East Syriac crossU+2671 East Syriac cross. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 3.0. The names list adds nothing to the name.
☽First quarter moonU+263D First quarter moon. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. The text moon that opens to the left.
⚜︎Fleur-de-lisU+269C Fleur-de-lis. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 4.1. The heraldic lily. Has an emoji form too, so it is copied with U+FE0E, the selector that keeps it as plain text.
❦Floral heartU+2766 Floral heart. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1. A printer's ornament. The names list also calls it Aldus leaf.
⚱︎Funeral urnU+26B1 Funeral urn. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 4.1. The other genealogy sign. The names list glosses it as cremated. Has an emoji form too, so it is copied with U+FE0E, the selector that keeps it as plain text.
𐌰Gothic letter ahsaU+10330 Gothic letter ahsa. Gothic block, Unicode 3.1. The first of 27 letters in the Unicode block named Gothic. It is the alphabet of the Gothic language, developed in the 4th century by Wikipedia's account, and it is here because of its name.
𐍈Gothic letter hwairU+10348 Gothic letter hwair. Gothic block, Unicode 3.1. A circle with a dot in it. Older fonts lack the Gothic block, so check that it draws where you paste it.
𐌸Gothic letter thiuthU+10338 Gothic letter thiuth. Gothic block, Unicode 3.1. Another of the 27. Wikipedia says most Gothic letters resemble Greek ones, and this one looks like psi.
⛼Headstone graveyard symbolU+26FC Headstone graveyard symbol. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 5.2. A map sign. The names list glosses it as graveyard, memorial park, cemetery.
⛧Inverted pentagramU+26E7 Inverted pentagram. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 6.0. The names list adds nothing to the name, and neither does this page.
☾Last quarter moonU+263E Last quarter moon. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. The text moon that opens to the right.
✟Outlined Latin crossU+271F Outlined Latin cross. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1. A solid cross with an outline round it.
⛤PentagramU+26E4 Pentagram. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 6.0. The names list also calls it pentalpha and pentangle.
☙Reversed rotated floral heart bulletU+2619 Reversed rotated floral heart bullet. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 3.0. Its mirror image. The names list calls it a binding signature mark.
❧Rotated floral heart bulletU+2767 Rotated floral heart bullet. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1. The same leaf on its side. The names list also calls it hedera and ivy leaf.
✞Shadowed white Latin crossU+271E Shadowed white Latin cross. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1. An outlined cross with a shadow.
☠︎Skull and crossbonesU+2620 Skull and crossbones. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. The names list gives it a second name: poison. Has an emoji form too, so it is copied with U+FE0E, the selector that keeps it as plain text.
♰West Syriac crossU+2670 West Syriac cross. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 3.0. Its neighbour in the same block, with the dots placed differently.
Black emoji 16
🐦⬛Black birdU+1F426 U+200D U+2B1B. A bird joined to a black square. CLDR files it under crow, raven and rook. Emoji 15.0.
🐈⬛Black catU+1F408 U+200D U+2B1B. A cat joined to a black square. CLDR files it under black, halloween and unlucky. Emoji 13.0.
⚫Black circleU+26AB. Filed under black by CLDR. Emoji 0.6.
🏴Black flagU+1F3F4. Filed under black by CLDR. Emoji 1.0.
🖤Black heartU+1F5A4. The Unicode names list says of it: unequivocally represented as black in all variants. CLDR files it under black, evil and wicked. Emoji 3.0.
⬛Black large squareU+2B1B. Filed under black by CLDR. The largest of four black squares. Emoji 0.6.
◼️Black medium squareU+25FC U+FE0F. Filed under black by CLDR. Emoji 0.6.
◾Black medium-small squareU+25FE. Filed under black by CLDR. Emoji 0.6.
✒️Black nibU+2712 U+FE0F. The eleventh and last emoji CLDR files under black. Emoji 0.6.
▪️Black small squareU+25AA U+FE0F. Filed under black by CLDR. The smallest of the four. Emoji 0.6.
🔲Black square buttonU+1F532. Filed under black by CLDR. Emoji 0.6.
♣️Club suitU+2663 U+FE0F. Unicode names the character black club suit. Emoji 0.6.
🌑New moonU+1F311. One of the two emoji CLDR files under dark. Emoji 0.6.
🌚New moon faceU+1F31A. The new moon, looking at you. Emoji 1.0.
♠️Spade suitU+2660 U+FE0F. Unicode names the character black spade suit. Emoji 0.6.
🕶️SunglassesU+1F576 U+FE0F. The other emoji CLDR files under dark. Emoji 0.7.
Goth emoji 18
🦇BatU+1F987. CLDR files it under vampire. No plain-text bat exists in Unicode. Emoji 3.0.
🕯️CandleU+1F56F U+FE0F. One flame. Emoji 0.7.
🏰CastleU+1F3F0. A European castle. Emoji 0.6.
🌙Crescent moonU+1F319. The moon as an emoji. The flat ones are in the first group. Emoji 0.6.
🔮Crystal ballU+1F52E. For seeing how this ends. Emoji 0.6.
🏚️Derelict houseU+1F3DA U+FE0F. The names list calls it derelict site. Emoji 0.7.
👁️EyeU+1F441 U+FE0F. One eye. Emoji 0.7.
🪦HeadstoneU+1FAA6. CLDR files it under cemetery, grave and rip. Emoji 13.0.
Leafless treeU+1FABE. A bare tree, and new: older devices draw an empty box for it. Emoji 16.0.
🕰️Mantelpiece clockU+1F570 U+FE0F. An old clock. Emoji 0.7.
🗝️Old keyU+1F5DD U+FE0F. The names list gives it a second name: encryption. Emoji 0.7.
🌹RoseU+1F339. The one that has not wilted yet. Emoji 0.6.
💀SkullU+1F480. CLDR files it under dead and death, and also under lmao. Emoji 0.6.
🕷️SpiderU+1F577 U+FE0F. Unicode gives it a text form, but the computer used to check this page drew that in colour too. Emoji 0.7.
🕸️Spider webU+1F578 U+FE0F. The same goes for the web. Emoji 0.7.
🧛VampireU+1F9DB. CLDR files it under Dracula and undead. It is the yellow default here; the five skin tones are on the Halloween page. Emoji 5.0.
🥀Wilted flowerU+1F940. The names list points from it to the rose. Emoji 3.0.
🐺WolfU+1F43A. For the howling. Emoji 0.6.
Dark shapes that Unicode names black 9
♥︎Black heart suitU+2665 Black heart suit. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. A black heart that is plain text. Its emoji form is the red heart suit, so this tile copies the flat one. Has an emoji form too, so it is copied with U+FE0E, the selector that keeps it as plain text.
☗Black shogi pieceU+2617 Black shogi piece. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 3.2. A shogi piece, by its name. Five sides, which is also the outline of a headstone.
☻Black smiling faceU+263B Black smiling face. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. A filled-in smile from Unicode 1.1, older than emoji.
■Black squareU+25A0 Black square. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. The plain-text square.
★Black starU+2605 Black star. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. A solid five-point star. The star page has the rest.
❤︎Heavy black heartU+2764 Heavy black heart. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1. Unicode names it black, meaning filled in, and the names list says it is displayed with a red color when used in emoji style. It is the red heart. This tile copies the flat form. Has an emoji form too, so it is copied with U+FE0E, the selector that keeps it as plain text.
●Plain black circleU+25CF Black circle. Geometric Shapes block, Unicode 1.1. The plain-text one. The names list points from it to the new moon.
⚑Plain black flagU+2691 Black flag. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 4.0. The plain-text flag. The emoji one is under **Black emoji**.
❥Rotated heavy black heart bulletU+2765 Rotated heavy black heart bullet. Dingbats block, Unicode 1.1. A heart on its side. No emoji form.
Goth kaomoji 12
(¬_¬)🖤Unimpressed, with a black heart
(×_×)Multiplication signs for eyes
(•ᵥᵥ•)Vampire: two small v for fangs
(︶︿︶)†Sighing beside a dagger mark
^(•ᵥᵥ•)^Bat ears and fangs
†( ̄ー ̄)†Deadpan between two dagger marks
†ヽ(•_•)ノ†A dagger mark in each hand
☠︎( ̄ω ̄)☠︎Pleased with itself, between skulls
☾(-_-)☽Bored between two moons
⚰︎(×_×)Out cold beside a coffin
𖤐(•_•)𖤐Between two Bamum letters
🕷(°_°)A spider arrives
Goth wrappers for a name, and dividers 15
† · † · † · † · †Divider: dagger marks and dots
†━━━━━━━━†Divider: a heavy rule between dagger marks
─── ☾ † ☽ ───Divider: two moons round a dagger mark
☙ ═══════ ❧Divider: a double rule between two ivy leaves
🕸 ─────── 🕷Divider: a thread from web to spider
† name †A dagger mark on each side
☠︎ name ☠︎Flat skulls
†☾ name ☽†Moons as brackets, dagger marks outside
♱ name ♰The two Syriac crosses
⛓︎ name ⛓︎Chained in
⛧ name ⛧Inverted pentagrams
✞ name ✞Shadowed crosses
𖤐 name 𖤐The Bamum letter on each side
🕸 name 🕷Web before, spider after
🦇 name 🦇A bat emoji on each side
Words in gothic letters 8
† 𝔪𝔦𝔡𝔫𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 †Midnight between dagger marks
ℌ𝔞𝔲𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔡Haunted, its H from Letterlike Symbols
ℭ𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔡𝔯𝔞𝔩Cathedral, its C from Letterlike Symbols
☾ 𝔫𝔬𝔠𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔢 ☽Nocturne between the moons
𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥Goth in Fraktur
𝕲𝖔𝖙𝖍Goth with a bold Fraktur capital
𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖈Gothic in bold Fraktur
🦇 𝖗𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖓 🦇Raven in bold Fraktur, with the wrong animal
Goth emoji combos 13
🦇🌑Bat and new moonBat, then new moon. Out for the night.
🐦⬛Black bird and leafless treeBlack bird, then leafless tree. The tree is Emoji 16.0, so older devices show a box for it.
🐈⬛🌙Black cat and crescent moonBlack cat, then crescent moon. On a wall somewhere.
🖤🥀Black heart and wilted flowerBlack heart, then wilted flower. The short version of the whole page.
🕯️🖤🕯️Candles round a black heartCandle, then black heart, then candle. A small shrine.
⛓️🖤⛓️Chains round a black heartChains, then black heart, then chains. The chains as colour emoji.
⚰️🥀Coffin and wilted flowerCoffin, then wilted flower. The coffin as a colour emoji.
🪦🌹Headstone and roseHeadstone, then rose. A visit.
🗝️🏚️Old key and derelict houseOld key, then derelict house. Somebody still has the key.
💀🖤Skull and black heartSkull, then black heart. Fond of you, in its way.
☠️🖤☠️Skull and crossbones, black heartSkull and crossbones, then black heart, then skull and crossbones. The colour form of the flat skull in the first group.
🕷️🕸️Spider and webSpider, then spider web. In code point order.
🧛🦇Vampire and batVampire, then bat. The two emoji CLDR files under vampire that are not a coffin.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. Every character was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt): the code points and the character names in the notes come from that file, names in sentence case. Block names come from Blocks.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt) and the Unicode version each character arrived in from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), both version 18.0.0. Other names and uses of a character come from the annotations in NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). That is where the second names in the notes come from: obelisk and long cross for the dagger, poison for the skull and crossbones, buried and cremated for the coffin and the urn, tyre chains required for the chains, Aldus leaf and hedera for the floral hearts, and the two lines on hearts (the black heart is unequivocally represented as black in all variants; the heavy black heart is displayed with a red color when used in emoji style). The names list annotates the inverted pentagram and the ankh with nothing, and this page adds nothing about what they stand for. Unicode 18.0 names 355 characters with the word black, 37 of them emoji, counted from UnicodeData.txt and emoji-data.txt by the build. What black means there is from the Unicode Standard 18.0, chapter 22 (https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode18.0.0/core-spec/chapter-22/, read 2026-09-19): BLACK or WHITE in a name is generally intended to contrast filled versus outline shapes, not to say the character must be presented in black. The Fraktur letters are from Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, which has no Fraktur capital C, H, I, R or Z because Letterlike Symbols already held them as black-letter capitals, and no Fraktur digits. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. Emoji search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml, main branch). That list files no emoji under goth or gothic, 11 under black (all on this page), two under dark (new moon and sunglasses), and bat and coffin under vampire. The build stops if any of that changes. Which characters have an emoji form, and the text-style sequences that keep them plain, come from emoji-data.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt) and emoji-variation-sequences.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt), version 18.0.0. The Bamum letter: Wikipedia, Bamum script (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamum_script, wikitext read 2026-09-19), for the script being made for the Bamum language of Cameroon and its historical stages reaching Unicode in version 6.0. The dagger as a footnote mark that follows the asterisk, its use for a death, and the double dagger as the third footnote mark: Wikipedia, Dagger (mark) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_(mark), wikitext read 2026-09-19). The block named Gothic has 27 letters, all from Unicode 3.1 (UnicodeData.txt, Blocks.txt, DerivedAge.txt). That it is the alphabet of the Gothic language, developed in the 4th century, with most letters resembling Greek ones: Wikipedia, Gothic alphabet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_alphabet, wikitext read 2026-09-19). Three letters are here; othal and nine hundred are left out on purpose. That blackletter type is popularly known as Gothic, and that Fraktur and blackletter are sometimes used interchangeably: Wikipedia, Blackletter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter, wikitext read 2026-09-19). Glyphs were drawn with CoreText on macOS on 2026-09-19 and the ones that came out as boxes were dropped, the turned dagger U+2E38 among them. In the same drawing the text-style forms of the black squares, the nib and the two card suits came out flat, and those of the spider, web, candle, key, house, clock and eye stayed in colour. Every kaomoji, wrapper, divider, styled word and combo is this site's own assembly, and the tile names are our own. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work