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empty pages

Empty Pages

Use a Unicode-aware character picker to enter 🗍; it has no dedicated key on an ordinary keyboard. It depicts a blank file as a stack of pages, so the surrounding message matters in chat. Its documented home is office-font iconography.

Text symbol
Search it as
blank file · blank document · empty file · page stack · file stack · multi-page file · multiple tabs · document icon
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🗍 means

A blank file shown as a stack of pages. In chat, read it literally only when the message concerns documents; otherwise ask what the sender means.

Office-font iconography is its documented lineage. A 2011 Unicode proposal records the source label “tall file3” in a set of Wingdings/Webdings symbols and dates original Wingdings to Windows 3.1 in 1992. The proposal aimed to make symbols that had lived only behind font-specific codes—codes other systems could not reliably interpret—searchable and portable as text.

As of 2026, it has no standard chat reading. A 2021 suggestion read its three-page rendering in Noto Sans Symbols 2 as multiple browser tabs. That is a font-specific workaround, not a second definition.

Neutral in a file context; cryptic in casual chat.

With no document context, ask what the sender means.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does empty pages look like tabs?

A 2021 suggestion read the three-page rendering in Noto Sans Symbols 2 as multiple browser tabs. It is a font-specific reading, not a second meaning.

How to type 🗍

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F5CD, 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 “empty pages”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f5cd, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🗍
CSS
\1F5CD
How do I type empty pages?
It has no dedicated key on an ordinary keyboard. Use a Unicode-aware character picker; an emoji keyboard may not list this text symbol.
In code
In JavaScript, Ruby, or Rust, write `\u{1F5CD}`; in Python, write `\U0001F5CD`.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🗍
HTML hex
🗍
CSS content
content: "\1F5CD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%97%8D
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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.

Families this belongs to

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