Notebook Emoji

Objects

A dark-covered notebook featuring a white spiral binding and lined pages visible on the cover. The design mimics a classic student composition book or a sturdy personal journal.

Usage Context

Used to denote homework, school projects, journaling, or keeping track of important information. It serves as a digital shorthand for academic work or writing tasks, often appearing alongside ✏️ or 📝 to signal that someone is busy drafting content or preparing for a meeting.

History

Added to the Unicode set in 2010, the notebook emoji was designed to bridge the gap between physical writing tools and the burgeoning rise of note-taking apps on mobile devices. It draws inspiration from the long-standing tradition of bound paper notebooks that remained the primary tool for classroom record-keeping long after computers entered the mainstream.

Details

Glyph

📓

Unicode

U+1F4D3

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f4d3:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDCD3;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Objects

Subcategory book-paper

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