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🔑 Key Emoji

The 🔑 Key emoji depicts a metallic key, commonly used for opening locks, room access, digital passwords, answers, or key solutions.

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Key
Category
Objects
Subcategory
Lock
Unicode
U+1F511
Emoji version
0.6
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The 🔑 Key emoji represents physical keys for doors, vehicles, or safes, as well as digital access keys and encryption. Figuratively, it is widely used to symbolize the 'key to success', vital information, solutions to problems, or major breakthroughs.

Quick Meaning

The 🔑 Key emoji depicts a metallic key, commonly used for opening locks, room access, digital passwords, answers, or key solutions.

Use Cases

How People Use 🔑

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Discussing house keys, car keys, or unlocking doors

Discussing house keys, car keys, or unlocking doors.

Representing digital API keys, passwords, and security tokens

Representing digital API keys, passwords, and security tokens.

Symbolizing crucial solutions, answers, or success strategies

Symbolizing crucial solutions, answers, or success strategies.

Real Messages

🔑 Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 🔑.

“Got the keys to my new apartment 🔑”

“Consistency is the key to success 🔑”

“Found the solution to the problem 🔑”

“Don't forget your house keys 🔑”

“Generated the secure login key 🔑”

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Lookup Data

Names, Keywords and Search Terms

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Official Name

Key

Subcategory: Lock

Aliases & Common Names

  • key
  • door key
  • house key
  • solution key

Keywords & Search Terms

  • key
  • lock
  • unlock
  • access
  • door
  • solution
  • password
  • token
  • success
Developer Reference

🔑 Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F511
Code points
U+1F511
UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0x91
UTF-16
\uD83D\uDD11
HTML decimal entity
🔑
HTML hexadecimal entity
🔑
JavaScript escape
\u{1F511}
CSS escape
\1F511
Python string
\U0001F511
Emoji Styles

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Microsoft Fluent

MIT License
Key emoji in Microsoft Fluent style

Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
Key emoji in Google Noto style

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Key emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Key emoji in OpenMoji style

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The 🔑 Key emoji depicts a metallic key, commonly used for opening locks, room access, digital passwords, answers, or key solutions.