What 🕮 means
It can mean an e-book, reading, study, or recorded knowledge.
A codex—a book with bound pages—made text easier to carry and consult. A surviving fragment of a Latin parchment codex dates to the late first to early second century. Around 1400, the University of Oxford put a book at the center of its coat of arms, its official emblem; medieval sacred books also carried authority and lasting wisdom.
Neutral and bookish.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does the book symbol appear as a square?
The font or app lacks a glyph for 🕮. The square is a missing-character placeholder; software with font support can display the symbol.
How to type 🕮
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F56E, then Alt+X to get 🕮.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “book”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f56e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🕮CSS
\1F56ECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🕮
HTML hex
🕮
CSS content
content: "\1F56E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%95%AE
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On screen
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Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.