Open book

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Shortcode
:book:
Shortcode
:open_book:
Unicode
U+1F4D6
HTML
📖
CSS
\1F4D6
JavaScript
"\u{1F4D6}"
URL
%F0%9F%93%96

bookeducationfantasyknowledgelibrarynovelsopenreading

What ๐Ÿ“– means

A book lying open. It stands for reading, stories, study and learning.

Readers use it for what they are reading now, book club picks and story time. Students use it for revision, and people of faith for scripture reading. Calling someone an open book ๐Ÿ“– means they hide nothing.

Facts

Open book ๐Ÿ“– 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 :book: or :open_book:. 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. open book, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. open book, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. open book, Google (Noto) design from 20212021
  4. open book, Google (Noto) design from 20262026

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. open book, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. open book, 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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