Lock & Keys Emojis 🔒️ 🔓️ 🔏 🔐
Browse all 6 lock & keys emojis from the Objects category. Click any emoji to copy it to your clipboard instantly, or open its page for meanings, Unicode codepoints, shortcodes and skin-tone variants.
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What lock & keys emojis are used for
Privacy, security and matters considered settled. 🔒️ closes a topic or marks a private account, 🔓️ opens one back up, and 🔐 shows up in posts about passwords and encryption. 🔑 has drifted furthest from the object, standing for the key insight or the detail that unlocks an argument. The padlock also carries the newer slang sense of being locked in.
Lock & Keys in the Unicode Standard
Unicode files 6 emojis under Lock & Keys, inside the Objects group. The set was built up over 2 Unicode releases, from Unicode 6.0 (2010) to Unicode 7.0 (2014), so the newer members are the ones most likely to show as a box on an older phone. The most recent additions are 🗝️ old key.