Toxic Symbol ☠

Toxic Symbol focuses on the technical character ☠, encoded as U+2620 (SKULL AND CROSSBONES). ☠ is U+2620 SKULL AND CROSSBONES. In plain text it can warn about poison, toxicity, or lethal danger, but an isolated glyph does not replace a complete hazard label. The reviewed strings—Toxic material: ☠, Keep out: ☠ poison, Label text: ☠ Toxic, and Training note: recognize ☠ as a hazard cue—show how the mark can appear in documentation without pretending that a text glyph replaces a full standard sign. The reviewed boundary is this: ☠ is U+2620 SKULL AND CROSSBONES. Similar-looking marks need their own code point or notation check. Common corrections are needed when authors are using ☠ without naming the hazard, claiming the glyph alone satisfies a safety regulation, and confusing toxic danger with the biohazard sign ☣. For Toxic Symbol, confirm that the pasted text still contains ☠ and has not been replaced by a visually similar form. In markup, use the literal character or the complete references ☠ and ☠; the saved CSS form is 2620. Do not omit any code point in a multi-character notation. A useful scope question is “Is ☠ a complete workplace hazard sign?” The reviewed answer is: No. It is a Unicode character; compliant signage and labels require the applicable design, wording, and hazard information. Typing can be checked in two environments. Windows: In Microsoft Word, type 2620 and press Alt+X. For the toxic symbol entry, in other Windows apps, use Character Map or copy ☠ from this page. macOS: Open Character Viewer with Control+Command+Space and search for “skull and crossbones,” or copy ☠. Final QA should verify U+2620, the complete character sequence, and the context in which ☠ appears. Keep Toxic Symbol as selectable text rather than an image whenever the actual character ☠ is the information being published.