Books

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Shortcode
:books:
Unicode
U+1F4DA
HTML
📚
CSS
\1F4DA
JavaScript
"\u{1F4DA}"
URL
%F0%9F%93%9A

bookeducationfantasyknowledgelibrarynovelsreadingschoolstudy

What ๐Ÿ“š means

A stack of books. It stands for studying, school, knowledge and a love of reading.

Students post it for exams, homework and โ€œstudy mode,โ€ often with ๐Ÿค“ or โ˜•. Readers use it for book hauls, reading goals and library trips. Teachers and schools use it for back-to-school messages.

Facts

Books ๐Ÿ“š is an emoji in the objects category, under book paper. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :books:. People also look for it with words like โ€œbookโ€, โ€œeducationโ€, โ€œfantasyโ€, or โ€œknowledgeโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. books, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. books, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. books, Google (Noto) design from 20202020
  4. books, Google (Noto) design from 20212021
  5. books, Google (Noto) design from 20262026

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. books, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. books, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

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