File folder

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Shortcode
:file_folder:
Unicode
U+1F4C1
HTML
📁
CSS
\1F4C1
JavaScript
"\u{1F4C1}"
URL
%F0%9F%93%81

filefolder

What ๐Ÿ“ means

A closed manila folder. It stands for files, folders and organized documents.

People use it for project files, shared drives and archives, and to label a category in notes. In work chat it often introduces a link to a folder. It is a neutral, practical marker.

Facts

File folder ๐Ÿ“ is an emoji in the objects category, under office. 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 :file_folder:. People also look for it with words like โ€œfileโ€ or โ€œfolderโ€.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. file folder, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. file folder, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. file folder, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

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

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

objects ยท Unicode 6.0