Open file folder
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- Shortcode
:open_file_folder:- Unicode
U+1F4C2- HTML
📂- CSS
\1F4C2- JavaScript
"\u{1F4C2}"- URL
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What ๐ means
An open manila folder with papers showing. It stands for opening files, looking through documents, and work in progress.
People use it when sharing or browsing files, reviewing records, or digging into an archive. Next to ๐, it suggests something is open and active rather than stored away.
Facts
Open file folder ๐ 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 :open_file_folder:. People also look for it with words like โfileโ, โfolderโ, or โopenโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.