Objects · Emoji 0.6
🔒Locked Emoji
Generally, it means something is locked or secure. It’s often used to represent privacy or protection.
The 🔒 emoji represents a padlock.
- Unicode
- U+1F512
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :lock:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🔒 Locked emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Locked emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the locked has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Locked emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :lock:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the locked, code point U+1F512.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🔒 Locked emoji
No picker to hand? The locked can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Locked emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the locked 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 emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around locked 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 with 🔒, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🔒 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Apps
What 🔒 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F512, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🔒 vs 🔏 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Locked
Code: U+1F512 · added 2010
Shortcode: :lock:
Generally, it means something is locked or secure.
Unicode name: Locked with Pen
Code: U+1F50F · added 2010
Shortcode: :lock_with_ink_pen:
It usually means something is private or secret.
12 — History
Where the 🔒 Locked 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+1F512 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 E51C, SoftBank E144.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Locked was approved as U+1F512 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.
13 — FAQ