Keycap: 4

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Shortcode
:four:
Shortcode
:keycap_4:
Unicode
U+0034 U+FE0F U+20E3
HTML
4️⃣
CSS
\0034\FE0F\20E3
JavaScript
"\u{0034}\u{FE0F}\u{20E3}"
URL
4%EF%B8%8F%E2%83%A3

4fourkeycap

What 4️⃣ means

The digit 4 on a keycap. It stands for four, the fourth item, or the word 'for' in playful spelling.

People number lists with 4️⃣ and write things like 'this one is 4️⃣ you'. It also counts a group of four, like a team for doubles.

In Chinese, Japanese and Korean, the word for four sounds like the word for death, so some people there avoid the number.

Facts

Keycap: 4 4️⃣ 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 :four: or :keycap_4:. People also look for it with words like “4”, “four”, or “keycap”.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. keycap: 4, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. keycap: 4, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. keycap: 4, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

symbols · Unicode 6.0