Meaning
The keycap 0 is a white numeral zero displayed inside a bright red or blue square, mimicking the appearance of a physical keyboard key or digital display button. The number sits centered on the colored background, creating a bold, instantly recognizable symbol that feels tactile and clickable.
People use this mostly for counting, scoring, or representing the concept of "nothing" or "zero." It works great for game scores, rankings, or humorous contexts where you're emphasizing emptiness—like "my motivation level today: 0️⃣." In group chats, it's handy for tallying votes or listing numbered items without using plain text digits.
The keycap numbers (0-9) are part of a unified design system, making them popular for creating visual lists, scorecards, or sequential callouts in social media captions and posts. They feel more playful and graphically interesting than typing regular numbers, especially when you want to break up long text or highlight milestones.
Across platforms, the keycap design remains fairly consistent—always a numeral inside a colorful square. Approved as part of Unicode Emoji 0.6 in 2010, these keycap versions were among the earliest standardized number emoji, making them one of the foundational building blocks of modern digital communication.
Common Uses
- • Counting down or listing items numerically
- • Representing zero points or nothing
- • Creating scorecards or rankings
- • Emphasizing emptiness or lack jokingly
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
Keycap numbers were some of the very first emoji standardized—they predate most modern emoji by decades, originating from early mobile phone designs in Japan where numeric displays were common.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:zero: :zero: :zero: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 0️⃣ |
| HTML (hex) | 0️⃣ |
| CSS | \30\FE0F\20E3 |
| JavaScript | \u0030\uFE0F\u20E3 |
| Python | \U00000030\U0000FE0F\U000020E3 |
| Java | \u0030\uFE0F\u20E3 |
| Perl | \x{30}\x{FE0F}\x{20E3} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{30}\x{FE0F}\x{20E3} |
| Punycode | xn--1c-1e6n-6hv |
| URL Encoded | 0%EF%B8%8F%E2%83%A3 |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0x30 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F 0xE2 0x83 0xA3 |
0️⃣ in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | কিক্যাপ: 0 |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 按键: 0 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 按鍵:0 |
| Danish | tast: 0 |
| Dutch | toets: 0 |
| English | keycap: 0 |
| English (UK) | keycap: 0 |
| Estonian | klahv: 0 |
| Finnish | näppäin: 0 |
| French | touches : 0 |
| German | Taste: 0 |
| Hindi | कीकैप: 0 |
| Hungarian | gombfej: 0 |
| Italian | tasto: 0 |
| Japanese | 囲み数字: 0 |
| Korean | 키 캡: 0 |
| Lithuanian | mygtukas: 0 |
| Malay | butang kekunci: 0 |
| Norwegian | taster: 0 |
| Polish | klawisz: 0 |
| Portuguese | tecla: 0 |
| Russian | клавиша 0 |
| Spanish | tecla: 0 |
| Spanish (Mexico) | tecla: 0 |
| Swedish | tangent: 0 |
| Thai | ปุ่มกดเลข: 0 |
| Ukrainian | клавіша: 0 |
| Vietnamese | mũ phím: 0 |