Old key
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- Shortcode
:old_key:- Unicode
U+1F5DD- HTML
🗝- CSS
\1F5DD- JavaScript
"\u{1F5DD}"- URL
%F0%9F%97%9D%EF%B8%8F
What ๐๏ธ means
An ornate skeleton key from another era. It suggests mystery, hidden secrets and doors that lead somewhere unexpected.
Fits fantasy writing, escape rooms, puzzle hunts and riddles. People use it for a clue in a game, a family heirloom, or a cozy vintage aesthetic. Compared with ๐, it reads more magical than practical.
Facts
Old key ๐๏ธ is an emoji in the objects category, under lock. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :old_key:. People also look for it with words like โclueโ, โkeyโ, โlockโ, or โoldโ.
Timeline
- 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.