What 📗 means
📗 is the green book emoji, filed under Objects in the book-paper subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 6.0 (2010).
How it is encoded
📗 is a single code point, U+1F4D7.
It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.
Don't confuse it with
3Combination ideas
2A suggestion for homework or a study session in progress.
A suggestion for a quiet reading break.
Worth knowing
- 📗 arrived in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 with the red, blue and orange books; all three Japanese carriers, DoCoMo, KDDI and SoftBank, already had a book pictograph it was mapped to.
Questions people ask
1Does 📗 refer to a specific book?
Not by itself. Cover lettering is artwork: Apple's version showed “Vol. 2” in 2026. If you mean a particular book, include its title in your message.
How to type 📗
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “green book”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “green book”.
Chat apps
:green_book:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
📗Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
📗
HTML hex
📗
CSS content
content: "\1F4D7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%93%97
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.