What 📰 means
Use it to flag a real announcement as breaking news, or to give your new job front-page treatment. Next to a link, it simply says: here's an article.
As of 2026, Apple, Facebook and WhatsApp drew the newspaper with different small details. Don't build a joke on the printed headline: the person you message may see another design.
Informational, or playfully newsworthy.
Sharing isn't endorsement. Read the caption before assuming agreement or sarcasm.
Don't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
2Try it for breaking news, or a mock bulletin.
Try it for a story you're sharing with an eye-roll.
Worth knowing
- 📰 traces back to the emoji set of KDDI, a Japanese mobile carrier, before joining Unicode in 2010; the rolled-up 🗞️ was only encoded in 2014.
Questions people ask
1Can 📰 mean fake news?
It can, with a skeptical caption. The newspaper itself doesn't label a story false; the surrounding words supply that judgment.
How to type 📰
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “newspaper”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “newspaper”.
Chat apps
:newspaper:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
📰Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
📰
HTML hex
📰
CSS content
content: "\1F4F0";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%93%B0
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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.