Objects · Emoji 0.6
🔏Locked with Pen Emoji
It usually means something is private or secret. People often use it to signal they don’t want to discuss something openly.
The 🔏 emoji is a locked pen.
- Unicode
- U+1F50F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :lock_
with_ ink_ pen: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🔏 Locked with Pen emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as lock pen emoji, pen lock emoji.
02 — Platforms
Locked with Pen emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F50F. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Locked with Pen emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :lock_with_ink_pen:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the locked with pen, code point U+1F50F.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🔏 Locked with Pen emoji
No picker to hand? The locked with pen can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Locked with Pen emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the locked with pen as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Locked with Pen emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around locked with pen for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🔏 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the locked with pen and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 🔏 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the locked with pen lands changes how it is taken.
10 — Difference
🔏 vs 🔐 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Locked with Pen
Code: U+1F50F · added 2010
Shortcode: :lock_with_ink_pen:
It usually means something is private or secret.
Unicode name: Locked with Key
Code: U+1F510 · added 2010
Shortcode: :closed_lock_with_key:
Generally, 🔐 means something is private, secure, or needs access.
11 — History
Where the 🔏 Locked with Pen emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F50F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🔏 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6D9, KDDI au EB0C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Locked with Pen was approved as U+1F50F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🔏 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ