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📜Scroll Emoji
The scroll emoji 📜 carries the codepoint U+1F4DC and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Objects → Books & Paper.
What 📜 scroll 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 paper and files it under Objects → Books & Paper.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F4DC | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 📜 | |
| HTML decimal | 📜 | |
| CSS | \1F4DC | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4DC} | |
| Python | \U0001F4DC | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCDC | |
| Rust | \u{1f4dc} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4DC} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4DC} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%9C | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 9C | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCDC | |
| Base64 | 8J+TnA== | |
| Decimal | 128220 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 📜
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “scroll”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “paper”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f4dcand 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 📜 scroll emoji mean?+
📜 is the scroll emoji, tagged paper. 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 📜?+
scroll is U+1F4DC. In HTML that is 📜, in CSS \1F4DC, and in JavaScript \u{1F4DC}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 📜 emoji added?+
scroll 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 📜 scroll.