The keycap: 10 emoji (🔟) is the internet’s giant red stamp of perfection—your instant “10/10, would recommend.” It shows up when someone absolutely nails it, when you’re dropping a Top 10 list, or when you’re finishing a countdown with a dramatic flourish. People use it to hype tracks, grades, glow-ups, or that one dessert that had no business being that good. It’s also flirty—“you’re a 🔟”—and delightfully extra when you rate your own chaotic story as a perfect ten. Sports fans tap it for “perfect 10” vibes, and movie nerds might wink at the Bo Derek “10” reference. Bonus points when it marks the Big 1-0 birthday, a tenth anniversary, or a decade milestone.
On Apple devices, it’s a glossy, candy-red rounded square with a bold white “10” centered on it—flat front view, subtle gradient highlight, soft inner shadow, and a keypad-style bevel that makes it look tappable. Think: a virtual button begging to be pressed. Most platforms keep the red-with-white-digits look, so it’s instantly recognizable mid-scroll. It also lands perfectly in meme speak: “this fit is a 🔟,” “playlist curation: 🔟,” or ironically after a lukewarm story to clown a friend with faux enthusiasm. TikTok and IG use it in rating reels; group chats drop it as the official seal of certified slaps-only. Sometimes it even doubles as a quick nod to iOS 10 nostalgia or a cheeky stand-in for the Roman numeral X without typing, well, X.
Definition
A keyboard button with the number 10 on it. A "Ten-key" is a reference to a key pad with a button for each numerical value from 0 to 9. There is no key for 10 as it is created with two keystrokes, the one and the zero. Many scales of rank or measurement are based in ten, with zero being the lowest score and ten being the highest score. A perfect score of 10. The start of a countdown. When counting down, it is tradition to start the countdown at ten, such as during a launch of a rocket or at the turn of the New Year. 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... blastoff!
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
632 of 2393
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ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:keycap_ten:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Keycap Ten Keycap 10
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Enclosed Alphanumeric Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Enclosed Alphanumeric Symbols
Names & Annotations
KEYCAP TEN x (combining enclosing keycap - 20E3) Design Note: Should look like digits 10 enclosed by a keycap like ⃣ U+20E3 COMBINING ENCLOSING KEYCAP.
Symbol Information
U+1F51F proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-83B
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[10]
KDDI
#189 四角数字10 U+E52B SJIS-F747 JIS-7728
Softbank
[10]
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
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)
1f51f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F51F
Decimal Code Point(s)
128287
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0x9F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 94 9F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 224 237
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDD1F
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddd1f
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56607
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F51F
UTF-32 Hex
01F51F
UTF-32 Dec
128287
Python Src
u"\U0001F51F"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x94\x9f"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDD1F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
