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note

Note

🗈 marks a written note, reminder, or text-bearing paper. In a message, it means “note this,” not a musical note. Its office-icon history is separate from medieval nota marks used to flag important passages.

Text symbol
Search it as
memo · reminder · annotation · filetext1 · notepad · document
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🗈 means

It labels something written down or meant to be kept.

Sent alone, it points to a reminder, annotation, or document. As a text glyph rather than emoji artwork, its outline can vary by font.

Wingdings 2 is a font that includes office icons; a Unicode proposal maps 🗈 to the written-material icon labeled filetext1 in that font. Medieval nota marks are a separate, older practice: Latin manuscript evidence places them from the fifth century onward, where they flagged passages of interest. 🗈 refers to written material; those marks called attention to a passage.

Don't confuse it with

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🗅
Empty Note
shares “note”
🗆
Empty Note Page
shares “note”
🗇
Empty Note Pad
shares “note”
🗉
Note Page
shares “note”

Questions people ask

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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.

How to type 🗈

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F5C8, 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 “note”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f5c8, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🗈
CSS
\1F5C8
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🗈
HTML hex
🗈
CSS content
content: "\1F5C8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%97%88
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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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