Key

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Shortcode: :key:
Unicode: U+1F511
HTML: 🔑
CSS: \1F511
JavaScript: "\u{1F511}"
URL: %F0%9F%94%91

What 🔑 means

A plain modern key. Literally it means unlocking, home and access; figuratively it marks the thing that matters most, as in "the key to success".

People pair it with 🏠 for a new home or with 🚗 for a new car. "Major 🔑" is a meme phrase for a piece of advice worth hearing. In tech chat it can stand for a password or API key.

Facts

Key 🔑 is an emoji in the objects category, under lock. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :key:. People also look for it with words like “keys”, “lock”, “major”, or “password”.