🔑 Key
Copy and paste this emoji: 🔑
Emoji Meaning
1
A golden key angled to the right — a clear visual symbol for unlocking answers and solutions.
2
A key that can unlock a front-door lock or the padlock on a drawer with some items. It’s shown in an orange hue, tilted at a 45° angle.
This emoji can represent not only a metal key for physical locks but also a software license key. It’s commonly used in contexts related to security, access control, and privacy.
Also Known As
- 🔑 Gold Key
Apple Name
- 🔑 Key
Unicode Name
- 🔑 Key
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🔑 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F511
Shortcodes
- Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%94%91 |
| Punycode | xn--kv8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 94 91 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDD11 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f511 |
| CSS | \01F511 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F511} |
| Perl | \x{1F511} |
| HTML hex | 🔑 |
| HTML dec | 🔑 |