🔒 Locked
🔒 Emoji meaning
Safe, secure, private, confidential, under lock and key, or blocked.
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🔒 Meaning
Closed padlock. The object or the information is not available to you, or you keep it safe and protected. Caution! A symbol of confidentiality!
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Commonly confused with
Direction Variant
Locked vs locked with pen; both indicate restricted access, pen merely hints at signing/rights.
Same Shape
Locked vs unlocked; both padlock icons, open vs closed detail may be overlooked.
Locked vs locked with key; both show secure state, key detail indicates extra security.
Mobile phone off vs locked; both used metaphorically for ‘not available’ or ‘do not disturb’.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Locked” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords added
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
Keywords added
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there were 2 changes.
Emoji title before
lock
Emoji title after
locked
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(2) Comments
Anonymous The expression of “just mine“ in a relationship.
Steven Thanks, bro 🔒️