What 📕 means
A book, reading or study — the words around it decide.
Next to a title it points at that book; next to exam talk it means study time. The shut cover is simply how the picture is drawn, not code for “finished it” or “keeping secrets.”
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsNext to a title or author
A recommendation, book club pick, or reading plan.
Next to homework or exam talk
Studying and schoolwork.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
2Suggested pairing: study session, homework underway.
Suggested pairing: settling in with a good book.
Worth knowing
- 📕 and its green, blue and orange siblings began in the emoji set of KDDI, a Japanese mobile carrier, and were encoded in Unicode 6.0.
Questions people ask
1Is the red book different from the green, blue or orange one?
Not in meaning. Their names differ only by cover colour, though each platform draws its own artwork; pick the one matching a real cover or your subject colours.
How to type 📕
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “closed book”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “closed book”.
Chat apps
:closed_book:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
📕Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
📕
HTML hex
📕
CSS content
content: "\1F4D5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%93%95
1
On screen
1
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.