🔐
What 🔐 means
A closed padlock, same as the one in the 🔒 Locked emoji, placed with a golden key next to it. The 🔐 Locked With Key emoji represents the much-needed pair, couple, match, etc. It signifies security, yes, but it can suggest hope, solutions, answers, and opportunity too.
How and when to use it
- As mentioned in the previous section, 🔐 suggests a 'pair' or a 'match'. Hence, it can be used in such contexts. However, this emoji can also refer to a mismatch (coz, we aren't sure if the key fits the lock in here).
- Examples for the previous point - "You were the key my soul was searching for while it was looking for answers 🔐" or "You're here and I'm here, but man, why can't we ever be together? 🔐 Talking about my career, ugh.".
- Speaking of a 'lock and key pair', you may use 🔐 in contexts of finding something that you've been looking for too. For instance, "I FOUND THE SOLUTION! 🔐 AND IT WORKED!!!".
- Use 🔐 while talking about unlocking something; a door, a closet, potential, love, anything. Like, "You possess the answers to all your problems 🔐. The only thing you got to find, is awareness".
- 🔐 would come in handy while suggesting someone to keep spare keys as well - "I'd honestly suggest your half-drunk mind to keep some spare keys 🔐 In places you'd remember".
Other Names
- 🔐 Lock and Key
- 🔐 Closed Padlock With Golden Key
- 🔐 Lock and Key Pair
- 🔐 Padlock and Key
- 🔐 Closed Lock with Golden Key
- 🔐 Locked Padlock With Key
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › lock
- Codepoints
U+1F510- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:closed_lock_with_key:- Keywords
- bike, closed, key, lock, locked, secure
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🔐 Locked with Key or 🇩🇯 Flag: Djibouti?