A spiral notepad used for taking notes or writing. Emoji

Objects

A top-down view of a notepad with white paper and a metal wire spiral binding at the top. The pages are typically shown with faint horizontal lines for handwriting.

Usage Context

Used to signal that someone is taking notes, drafting a message, or keeping a to-do list. It serves as a digital shorthand for meetings, shopping lists, or keeping track of ideas. It is often used alongside 📝 or 🖊️ when discussing productivity or reminders.

History

Added in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, this design was inspired by the classic legal pad or stenographer’s notebook. These tools were staples of the 20th-century office environment before the rise of smartphones replaced physical scratchpads for quick data entry.

Details

Glyph

🗒

Unicode

U+1F5D2

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f5d2:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDDD2;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Objects

Subcategory office

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository