The # key from a phone keypad. It stands for the number sign, the pound or hash key, and hashtags.
People use #️⃣ to point at a hashtag, to say 'number' in rankings, or to mean the phone key in instructions such as 'press #️⃣ to confirm'. It also tags posts about channels and topics.
Facts
Keycap: # #️⃣ 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 :hash: or :keycap_number_sign:. People also look for it with words like “keycap”.
Timeline
2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.