What 📖 means
Reading, studying, or a story worth telling. As a reading emoji, 📖 tags a recommendation or whatever is on your nightstand; as a study emoji, it announces homework mode. The words next to it decide which.
Casual and bookish; comfortable in school, work, and reading chats.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsAfter a study update
Homework, exam prep, or deep in a textbook.
After “I have a story”
Introduces something the sender wants to tell you.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
3A cozy reading break with a hot drink.
Study session: reading and taking notes.
Bedtime reading.
Worth knowing
- 📖 started out among the emoji on Japanese mobile phones before Unicode adopted it in 2010.
Questions people ask
1Why does the book look different on iPhone?
The artwork varies by platform. Apple has used tiny text from its Think Different advertising campaign (1997–2002) inside the pages.
How to type 📖
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “open book”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “open book”.
Chat apps
:book:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
📖Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
📖
HTML hex
📖
CSS content
content: "\1F4D6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%93%96
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.