What does locked 🔒 Mean? Copy/Paste Guide
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What does 🔒 locked Mean?
The locked emoji 🔒 marks anything private, secured or off-limits: private accounts, paywalled posts, password-protected files, or a promise of discretion — “DMs are 🔒, tell me everything”. In sales and drops it flags something not yet available: “prices 🔒 until Friday”. It has also picked up the slang sense of being unavailable romantically or professionally, as in “taken 🔒” and “roster is 🔒”.
- 💡General Use: locked
- 📱Social Media: Instagram, TikTok, X
Cultural Meaning & Social Media Tips
Platform UI trained the meaning: the padlock is the browser address bar’s HTTPS icon, Instagram’s private-account badge, and WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption notice, so people read it as “secure” before they read it as “shut”. Discord and Slack use it in channel names for restricted rooms, and 🔒 in a channel title is understood as staff-only without further explanation. Avoid it in customer-facing copy about outages or account problems — it reads as “you’ve been locked out” rather than “your data is safe”.
How 🔒 Looks on Different Platforms
Emoji designs vary slightly between systems. Here is how the locked emoji is rendered on major platforms like Apple, Google, and WhatsApp.
*Images come from open-licensed emoji sets (Twemoji CC BY 4.0, Noto Apache 2.0, OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0). Apple and WhatsApp sets are proprietary and cannot be hosted; the "Your Device" card shows your own OS emoji font — on iPhone/Mac that is the Apple design. Click any card to copy the emoji.
When to Use locked?
Social Media
Just posted a new photo! 🔒
Messaging
Hey, check this out 🔒
Reaction
Wow, that's amazing! 🔒
Status
Feeling 🔒 today
How to Type locked on Keyboard?
Windows 10/11 Shortcut
- Windows Key
- . (period)
- Type "locked"
- Select 🔒
Mac (Macbook) Shortcut
- Control + Command + Space
- Search "locked"
- Select 🔒
locked HTML & CSS Codes
| Property | Value / Code | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Name | locked | |
| Unicode Code | U+1F512 | |
| HTML Entity | 🔒 | |
| HTML Hex | 🔒 | |
| CSS Content | \01F512 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F512} | |
| Shortcode (Discord, Slack, GitHub) | :lock: | |
| Emoji Version | Emoji 0.6 | |
| Year Added | 2010 | |
| Skin Tone Support | No |
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Graphics come from open-licensed sets: Twemoji (CC BY 4.0, Twitter/X), Noto Color Emoji (Apache 2.0, Google) and OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0). Free to use with attribution.
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