Objects · Emoji 0.7
🗝️Old Key Emoji
Generally, the 🗝️ emoji just means “key.” People use it to represent literal keys, but also things like access, opportunity, or a secret.
The 🗝️ emoji represents an old key.
- Unicode
- U+1F5DD U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :old_
key: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🗝️ Old Key emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Old Key emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F5DD — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your old key looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Old Key emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :old_key:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F5DD.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🗝️ Old Key emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Old Key emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the old key as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 8 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Old Key emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around old key 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 old key and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 🗝️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F5DD, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
🗝️ vs 🔑 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Old Key
Code: U+1F5DD U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :old_key:
Generally, the 🗝️ emoji just means “key.”
Unicode name: Key
Code: U+1F511 · added 2010
Shortcode: :key:
Generally, when someone sends you a 🔑, they mean they have the solution or access to something you need.
11 — History
Where the 🗝️ Old Key emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 0.7, the old key has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 12.
Same character every time — U+1F5DD U+FE0F 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.
Old Key was approved as U+1F5DD U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🗝️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ