🔏

Locked with Pen Emoji 🔏

What 🔏 means

A combination emoji of a padlock and a pen; created with a 🔒 Lock and a 🖋️ Fountain Pen. The ink pen is placed in front of the padlock.

Primarily, the 🔏 Locked With Pen emoji would signify privacy, security, confidentiality, and a sense of signing or writing something that's top secret. It could also suggest a personal diary, a private journal, etc.

How and when to use it

Use 🔏 while talking to someone about something that's moderately private and confidential (because if it's highly confidential, call). For example, "So. You say you'd do my short film for college??? 🔏" or "Great! Please treat this as a formal agreement 🔏".
🔏 can also be used to signify casual mutual agreements or contracts.
Based on the previous point, 🔏 could be brought in while reminding someone of that mutual agreement. For instance, "Um. You remember our 'homies pact' right? 🔏".
You could use even in the context of reassurance too - "Don't worry, darling. All your mushy emails are always safe with me 🔏" or "All their screenshots are in safe hands 🔏 Bwahaha".
If you're advising someone about being careful with personal things, you can use 🔏. Like, "Please don't be as stupid as I was to leave my personal diary lying around like a magazine. Keep it safe 🔏".

Other Names

🔏 Locked Padlock With Fountain Pen
🔏 Lock and Pen
🔏 Lock and Fountain Pen
🔏 Lock With Ink Pen
🔏 Padlock and Ink Pen

The lowdown

Category: Objects › lock
Codepoints: U+1F50F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :lock_with_ink_pen:
Keywords: ink, lock, locked, nib, pen, privacy

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.