Empty Note Pad

🗇 is a blank notepad symbol from a font’s user-interface set. Its outline comes from the text font, so it usually appears monochrome.

Text symbol

What 🗇 means

In a message, read it as a document or file cue. As of 2026, no broad chat convention gives it a second standard meaning; any special use depends on the sender’s surrounding words.

The Wingdings family appeared with Windows 3.1 in 1992. Wingdings 2 later mapped this form as file3, a file-and-note mark in its user-interface set. Its documented trail points to a practical interface symbol; Unicode’s later entry records the character, not its invention.

Why is 🗇 black and white?

A text font draws its outline. It has no emoji-style presentation recommendation, so the installed font determines its shape and it usually appears monochrome.

Part of the collection

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Writing & Notes Emoji

Don't confuse it with

🗒

Spiral Notepad

🗒 is the spiral-bound notepad emoji, often shown in colour; 🗇 is a plain text symbol of an empty pad.

Combination ideas

A fresh notepad, ready for ideas.

Starting a shopping list.

Grab a pad to take a phone message.

Questions people ask

Why does 🗇 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.