Meaning
This keycap displays a bold numeral "1" centered inside a colored square, resembling a pressed button or keyboard key. The design is simple yet visually distinct, making it stand out clearly even at small sizes.
Use 1️⃣ for ranking, numbering lists, or highlighting "first place." It's perfect for "number one" celebrations—your favorite song, top pick, or coming in first in a game. People also use it to mean "me" (like "1️⃣ for tacos") or to start a numbered sequence in captions and stories.
The keycap style gives these numbers a fun, interactive feel compared to plain text digits. Gamers love them for leaderboards, and content creators use them to build visually punchy top-ten or "reasons why" posts. In conversations, a single 1️⃣ can playfully claim something as number one or indicate your vote.
Design consistency across platforms keeps the keycap 1 looking crisp and modern. Approved as part of Unicode Emoji 0.6 in 2010, it's been a staple way to communicate rankings and ordering ever since the earliest days of standardized emoji.
Common Uses
- • Marking first place or the top choice
- • Starting a numbered list visually
- • Claiming something as 'number one'
- • Voting or indicating preference
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
The keycap numbers 0-9 are technically multi-character sequences (the digit plus a special 'variation selector'), which is why they render slightly differently on older devices compared to modern ones.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:one: :one: :one: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 1️⃣ |
| HTML (hex) | 1️⃣ |
| CSS | \31\FE0F\20E3 |
| JavaScript | \u0031\uFE0F\u20E3 |
| Python | \U00000031\U0000FE0F\U000020E3 |
| Java | \u0031\uFE0F\u20E3 |
| Perl | \x{31}\x{FE0F}\x{20E3} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{31}\x{FE0F}\x{20E3} |
| Punycode | xn--1d-1e6n-6hv |
| URL Encoded | 1%EF%B8%8F%E2%83%A3 |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0x31 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F 0xE2 0x83 0xA3 |
1️⃣ in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | কিক্যাপ: 1 |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 按键: 1 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 按鍵:1 |
| Danish | tast: 1 |
| Dutch | toets: 1 |
| English | keycap: 1 |
| English (UK) | keycap: 1 |
| Estonian | klahv: 1 |
| Finnish | näppäin: 1 |
| French | touches : 1 |
| German | Taste: 1 |
| Hindi | कीकैप: 1 |
| Hungarian | gombfej: 1 |
| Italian | tasto: 1 |
| Japanese | 囲み数字: 1 |
| Korean | 키 캡: 1 |
| Lithuanian | mygtukas: 1 |
| Malay | butang kekunci: 1 |
| Norwegian | taster: 1 |
| Polish | klawisz: 1 |
| Portuguese | tecla: 1 |
| Russian | клавиша 1 |
| Spanish | tecla: 1 |
| Spanish (Mexico) | tecla: 1 |
| Swedish | tangent: 1 |
| Thai | ปุ่มกดเลข: 1 |
| Ukrainian | клавіша: 1 |
| Vietnamese | mũ phím: 1 |