Locked
U+1F512🔒Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🔒
Lock & Key Symbols Copy & Paste
Copy 112 lock & key symbols for locations, travel and everyday objects. Mostly drawn from the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block.
Copy lock & key symbols
112 characters and sequences. Choose an entry and it copies straight away.
That search returns nothing in this set.
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Lock & Key Symbols with Unicode names and HTML codes
12 of the 112 entries, shown with their full detail. Formal Unicode names are what separate the lookalikes; the hexadecimal and decimal references below reproduce each value exactly.
Interlocked Female And Male Sign
U+26A4⚤Symbol · decimal ⚤
Left Half Block + Space + Right Half Block
U+258C U+0020 U+2590▌   ▐Text sequence · decimal ▌   ▐
Six O’Clock
U+1F555🕕Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🕕
Top Arc Clockwise Arrow With Minus
U+293C⤼Symbol · decimal ⤼
Anticlockwise Gapped Circle Arrow
U+27F2⟲Symbol · decimal ⟲
Left Seven Eighths Block
U+2589▉Symbol · decimal ▉
Speak-No-Evil Monkey
U+1F64A🙊Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🙊
Four-Thirty
U+1F55F🕟Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🕟
Digit Two + Combining Enclosing Keycap
U+0032 U+20E32 ⃣Emoji sequence · decimal 2 ⃣
Keycap: #
U+0023 U+FE0F U+20E3# ️ ⃣Emoji sequence · decimal # ️ ⃣
Ice Hockey
U+1F3D2🏒Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🏒
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Lock & Key Symbols: types, meanings and practical differences
Lock and key characters are familiar cues for privacy, access, security and protected content.
Everyday things and locations, drawn mostly from the emoji blocks. That amounts to 112 copyable values here — 93 of them one character long, 19 longer.
Names such as Locked, Interlocked Female And Male Sign, Left Half Block + Space + Right Half Block, Six O’Clock appear here, and counting every entry puts Combining Enclosing Keycap (12), Variation Selector-16 (5), Lower Half Block (3) at the top. Single-character values span U+21B6 to U+1F983.
Browse lock & key symbols by type
Emoji or pictograph
51 entries
Symbol
42 entries
Emoji sequence
15 entries
Text sequence
4 entries
What this inventory contains
Where lock & key symbols sit in the code space
The span runs U+21B6 to U+1F983. By Unicode general category that is symbol 93.
Recurring formal-name families
Counted across the stored entries, the commonest name patterns are Combining Enclosing Keycap (12), Variation Selector-16 (5), Lower Half Block (3).
Joiners, selectors and length
Sequence count is 19. Joiners appear in 0, variation selectors in 5, and the deepest entry stacks 8 code points.
Which one should you use
The easy mix-up is Left Half Block + Space + Right Half Block versus Left Seven Eighths Block. They are different characters: U+258C U+0020 U+2590 and U+2589. Try emoji or pictograph first — 51 to pick from.
Leave text sequence unless nothing else fits. Colour or no colour is the first choice: 66 emoji, 46 plain. Test the result in the real app before you use it.
The grouping here follows practical use, not Unicode's formal categories.
51Emoji or pictograph
Rendered in colour by Apple, Google or Microsoft. 46% here.
42Symbol
Monochrome characters you can style like text. 38% here.
15Emoji sequence
Several code points joined into one image. 13% here.
4Text sequence
Multiple characters that read as one unit. 4% here.
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Lock & Key Symbols explained in plain English
Short summary
Pick from 112 lock & key symbols on this page. The largest set is emoji or pictograph, with 51. They come mostly from one part of Unicode: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs. 46 are plain text. The other 66 are emoji, so your phone or computer draws them in colour.
How the 4 groups divide
Emoji or pictograph is the biggest at 51. The rest split between symbol, emoji sequence and text sequence.
Where they live in Unicode
They come from Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (43), Block Elements (35) and Basic Latin (13). The range is U+21B6 to U+1F983. That spread is why fonts disagree.
Easy to confuse
Left Half Block + Space + Right Half Block is not Left Seven Eighths Block. Read the name, not the shape.
19 entries are sequences
Half-copying breaks 19 of these. Take the whole value.
Key words and ideas
Useful terms when searching or describing lock & key symbols.
- Emoji or pictograph
- Symbol
- Emoji sequence
- Text sequence
- Lock
- Key
- Security
- Privacy
- Password
- Locked
- Interlocked
- Female
A quick choice checklist
- Match the meaning. Start with emoji or pictograph when that group fits your message.
- Read the name. Compare Locked with Interlocked Female And Male Sign before you pick by shape.
- Test the result. Paste the full value into the app, document, or profile where it will appear.
Security symbols describe states, objects and actions
A closed lock, open lock and key are not interchangeable. Interfaces need to clarify whether the user is viewing status, changing access or protecting data.
| Cue | Possible meaning | Required label |
|---|---|---|
| 🔒 / 🔐 | Locked, encrypted or private | Name what is protected and whether the state is active. |
| 🔓 | Unlocked or public | Avoid implying that data is safe merely because access is open. |
| 🔑 / 🗝 | Credential, access or recovery | Use words such as Sign in, Access key or Reset password. |
| 🛡 / ⛓ | Protection, defense or restriction | State the actual security control instead of promising safety through an icon. |
Practical note: Icons are not proof of encryption, identity or trust. Security claims should name the control, and password fields should remain accessible to keyboard and assistive-technology users.
Read further
Compare these choices with warning symbols and office symbols. For a deeper explanation, read Emoji Sequences Explained: Joiners, Skin Tones and Flags. A faster route to the same point: what is the difference between a symbol and an emoji?.
Tip: A symbol should decorate a label, not replace it — plain words keep the meaning available to search and to assistive technology.
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How to use lock & key symbols
Copying stores text, so the value survives the clipboard intact. Paste it with Ctrl V, ⌘ V or your device's Paste command.
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Maps, itineraries and location notes
Start with Locked. It works nearly everywhere.
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Object labels and checklists
For object labels and checklists, choose among the 51 emoji or pictograph entries, then check the weight sits comfortably beside your type.
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Security, home and travel captions
When creating security, home and travel captions, paste the complete entry — several of these are multi-code-point sequences that break if truncated.
Copy-ready lock & key symbols examples for maps, itineraries and location notes
Maps, itineraries and location notes
🔒 Lock & Key referenceObject labels and checklists
🔒 🔓 🔐Security, home and travel captions
🔐 lock & key 🔒05
How to type these lock & key symbols directly
You do not have to copy. Each code point below doubles as a keyboard code — decimal for a Windows alt code, hexadecimal for Word and macOS.
| Character | Name | Windows | Hex | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🔒 | Locked | Not available | 1F512 | 🔒 |
| ⚤ | Interlocked Female And Male Sign | Alt 9892 | 26A4 | ⚤ |
| 🕕 | Six O’Clock | Not available | 1F555 | 🕕 |
| ⤼ | Top Arc Clockwise Arrow With Minus | Alt 10556 | 293C | ⤼ |
| ⟲ | Anticlockwise Gapped Circle Arrow | Alt 10226 | 27F2 | ⟲ |
| ▉ | Left Seven Eighths Block | Alt 9609 | 2589 | ▉ |
Two limits apply to alt codes: a physical keypad, and a ceiling at U+FFFF. 47 entries here sit above that ceiling. A further 19 are sequences, which no shortcut reproduces — copy those instead. Full per-platform instructions live in the keyboard guide.
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How lock & key symbols render across fonts, apps and devices
Most of these live in one place: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs holds 47% of them. The rest come from Block Elements and Basic Latin. 46 act like letters.
They take the colour of the text around them. 66 are emoji and arrive in colour you cannot change. Unicode files the emoji ones under Travel & Places and Objects.
Watch the 19 that use several characters at once. Copy the whole thing, or it breaks apart. The newest here arrived in Emoji 2.0.
Older phones show a blank box instead.
A pasted entry is redrawn by the receiving application's font. Expect small differences in width and weight across devices, and larger ones where a font lacks the character entirely.
93Single characters
19Sequences
66Emoji properties
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Common mistakes with lock & key symbols
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Picking Locked when you wanted Interlocked Female And Male Sign.
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Assuming all 112 behave the same way in every font.
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Copying only part of one of the 19 multi-code-point sequences instead of the whole value.
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Reaching for one of the 66 emoji entries where a text mark was needed, so the colour artwork clashes with the surrounding type.
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Lock & Key Symbols questions and answers
What is the difference between Left Half Block + Space + Right Half Block and Left Seven Eighths Block?+
They are two distinct Unicode characters: Left Half Block + Space + Right Half Block is U+258C U+0020 U+2590 (HTML ▌   ▐) and Left Seven Eighths Block is U+2589 (HTML ▉). A font may draw them almost identically, but they sort and search as separate values.
What is the HTML code for locked?+
Write 🔒 (hex) or 🔒 (decimal) to get 🔒. Numeric references sidestep encoding problems in older toolchains.
Which lock & key symbols work as plain text rather than emoji?+
46 of the 112 are ordinary text characters. They take the colour and weight of the surrounding font, which suits documents, code and interface labels. The other 66 are emoji and arrive as colour artwork you cannot restyle.
Why does one of these lock & key symbols split apart when I paste it?+
19 entries here are sequences of more than one code point. If the destination does not support the sequence, or if the copy was truncated, the parts render individually. Copy the entry with the button rather than by selecting the characters.
Which Unicode block are these lock & key symbols in?+
The answer is Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, covering 43 of them; the rest come from Block Elements and Basic Latin. Older blocks are the safe ones; anything added recently needs testing first.
Will these lock & key symbols work on older phones?+
The newest entry on this page was introduced in Emoji 2.0. Devices that have not received a font update since then will show a blank rectangle instead. Test on a real older device before using a recent character where the meaning matters.
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Learn more about lock & key symbols
Tools that pair with lock & key symbols
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The Symbol Maker assembles any of these into a framed, copyable line. The Unicode tools hub compares all seven and says when each is the right choice.
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The data behind this page
All counts derive from the 112 values actually stored for this collection. Rather than curating names by hand, this page reads them from the Unicode 17.0 database, and takes emoji membership from the standard's own data files.
- Unicode Character Database — UnicodeData.txt (formal names and general categories)
- Unicode emoji-test.txt (fully-qualified emoji sequences and grouping)
- The Unicode Standard, current version
- How CoolSymbol.now sources, counts and tests this data