Keycap: 6 is the digital equivalent of a tiny keyboard button that screams “press me!”—a bold six wrapped in a neat keycap. People drop 6️⃣ for countdowns, schedules (meet at 6?), day 6 of a challenge, or to label the sixth item in a list when you’re going full PowerPoint in the group chat. It also carries that wonderfully mid internet vibe for ratings—“movie was a 6/10, fun but not life-changing.” Gamers and sports fans flex it for luck or hype: rolling a six in board games, yelling SIX! in cricket highlights, or tossing it into a celebratory tweet when the dice gods finally show up.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a crisp, dark “6” centered on a light gray, rounded-rectangle keycap with a soft gradient and subtle inner shadow—very iOS keyboard chic, clean and straight-on with tidy edges. Beyond the basics, 6️⃣ gets playful: Toronto folks use it for “The 6” (Drake stans unite), gym bros joke about the elusive “six-pack,” and gearheads nod to V6 engines. It’s handy for time stamps (6 pm), sarcastic ETAs (“be there in 6️⃣ mins” aka… eventually), and listicles that refuse to stop at five. Compared to a plain 6, the keycap look adds extra emphasis—like bolding your number with a tap-friendly glow-up.
A blue button with the text '6' on it.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 631 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :six: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Keycap 6 Blue Square Button Six |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Enclosed Alphanumeric Symbols |
| Unicode Category | Activities/work/entertainment |
| Unicode Subcategory | Enclosed Alphanumeric Symbols |
| Names & Annotations | KEYCAP 6 Temporary Notes: Unify with ASCII 6 (U+0036) + (U+20E3) |
| Symbol Information | 6⃣ U+0036 U+20E3 unified (Unicode 3.0) |
| Proposal Identifier | e-833 |
| DoCoMo | #130 '6' 6 U+E6E7 SJIS-F98C JIS-7724 |
| KDDI | #185 四角数字6 U+E527 SJIS-F743 JIS-7724 |
| Softbank | #398 #old213 6 U+E221 SJIS-F7C1 |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 4 Code |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | |
| Decimal HTML Entity |  |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e221 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E221 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 57889 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x88 0xA1 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 88 A1 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 210 241 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE221 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e221 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 57889 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E221 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E221 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 57889 |
| Python Src | u"\uE221" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x88\xa1" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE221" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 Code |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 6⃣ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 6⃣ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 6 ⃣ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 6 ⃣ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 36, 20e3 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+36, U+20E3 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 54, 8419 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x36, 0xE2 0x83 0xA3 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | 36, E2 83 A3 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 66, 342 203 243 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0036, 0x20E3 |
| UTF-16 Hex | 0036, 20e3 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 54, 8419 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x00000036 0x000020E3 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 36, 20E3 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 54, 8419 |
| Python Src | u"\u0036\u20E3" |
| PHP Src | "\x36\xe2\x83\xa3" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u0036\u20E3" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 6️⃣ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 3 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 6️⃣ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 6 ️ ⃣ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 6 ️ ⃣ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 36, fe0f, 20e3 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+36, U+FE0F, U+20E3 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 54, 65039, 8419 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x36, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F, 0xE2 0x83 0xA3 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | 36, EF B8 8F, E2 83 A3 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 66, 357 270 217, 342 203 243 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0036, 0xFE0F, 0x20E3 |
| UTF-16 Hex | 0036, fe0f, 20e3 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 54, 65039, 8419 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x00000036 0x0000FE0F 0x000020E3 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 36, FE0F, 20E3 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 54, 65039, 8419 |
| Python Src | u"\u0036\uFE0F\u20E3" |
| PHP Src | "\x36\xef\xb8\x8f\xe2\x83\xa3" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u0036\uFE0F\u20E3" |
| Emoji Encoding | DoCoMo | KDDI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | | | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |||
| Decimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾠳 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾠳 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e6e7 | e527 | fe833 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E6E7 | U+E527 | U+FE833 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 59111 | 58663 | 1042483 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x9B 0xA7 | 0xEE 0x94 0xA7 | 0xF3 0xBE 0xA0 0xB3 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 9B A7 | EE 94 A7 | F3 BE A0 B3 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 233 247 | 356 224 247 | 363 276 240 263 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE6E7 | 0xE527 | 0xDBBA 0xDC33 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e6e7 | e527 | dbbadc33 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 59111 | 58663 | 56250 56371 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E6E7 | 0x0000E527 | 0x000FE833 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E6E7 | E527 | 0FE833 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 59111 | 58663 | 1042483 |
| Python Src | u"\uE6E7" | u"\uE527" | u"\U000FE833" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x9b\xa7" | "\xee\x94\xa7" | "\xf3\xbe\xa0\xb3" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE6E7" | "\uE527" | "\uDBBA\uDC33" |
