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📚️Books Emoji
📚️ books is encoded at U+1F4DA U+FE0F and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Objects → Books & Paper, alongside 16 related emojis.
What 📚️ books means
Reading and study posts, reviews, and anything framed as news. 📚️ signals revision and exam season, and the coloured books get treated as interchangeable rather than as distinct titles. 📜 flags a long piece of writing, 📰 introduces a link, and 🔖 and 🏷️ mark saves, tags and prices. 📖 usually announces a definition or a lesson about to follow.
Unicode tags this one book, education and fantasy and files it under Objects → Books & Paper.
Copy variants
books carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 📚️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 📚U+1F4DAbooks
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F4DA U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 📚️ | |
| HTML decimal | 📚️ | |
| CSS | \1F4DA\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4DA}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F4DA\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCDA\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f4da}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4DA}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4DA}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%9A%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 9A EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCDA FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Tmu+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128218 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 📚️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “books”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “book”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f4daand Enter. - HTML — paste
📚️.
How 📚️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 📚️Apple
- 📚️Segoe
- 📚️Noto
- 📚️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 📚️ books emoji mean?+
📚️ is the books emoji, tagged book, education and fantasy. Reading and study posts, reviews, and anything framed as news. 📚️ signals revision and exam season, and the coloured books get treated as interchangeable rather than as distinct titles. 📜 flags a long piece of writing, 📰 introduces a link, and 🔖 and 🏷️ mark saves, tags and prices. 📖 usually announces a definition or a lesson about to follow.
What is the Unicode code for 📚️?+
books is U+1F4DA U+FE0F. In HTML that is 📚️, in CSS \1F4DA\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F4DA}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 📚️ emoji added?+
books got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Books & Paper in Objects.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 📚️ books.