The digit 1 on a keycap. It stands for one, first place, or step one.
People number lists and steps with 1️⃣, mark the first option in a poll, or call someone their number one. It opens many numbered threads, with 2️⃣ and 3️⃣ on the lines below.
Facts
Keycap: 1 1️⃣ is an emoji in the symbols category, under keycap. 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 :one: or :keycap_1:. People also look for it with words like “1”, “keycap”, or “one”.
Timeline
2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
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2021
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.