U+1F511
🔑 Key
- Category
- Objects
- Subcategory
- Locks & Keys
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 6.0 (2010)
- Emoji version
- 0.6 (2010)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the 🔑 emoji means
A golden key. Access — to a flat, to an account, to an answer.
Literal in property and moving posts, figurative in advice: the key to something. In technical writing it stands for credentials.
Chat examples
Will your readers see 🔑
The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.
- Apple always there
- Google always there
- Microsoft always there
- Samsung always there
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the 🔑 emoji is used
The 🔑 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how key is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 🔑 Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.