A tall cabinet with drawers used for storing files or documents. Emoji

Objects

A grey or silver metal filing cabinet shown from a slight side angle, featuring three stacked drawers. Each drawer is equipped with a small handle or pull, depicting the standard piece of office furniture used for organizing paper records.

Usage Context

Used to represent office work, organization, data storage, or bureaucracy. It often appears in conversations about getting life affairs in order, managing paperwork, or digital archiving. It is frequently grouped with related office supplies like 📁 or 📄.

History

This emoji was added in Unicode 7.0 in 2014 as part of a push to bring more common workplace objects into the standard character set as remote work and digital file management began to replace physical archives.

Details

Glyph
🗄
Unicode
U+1F5C4
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f5c4:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Microsoft
Category Objects
Subcategory office
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Tags
cabinetfilefilingpaperobjectsofficedrawersrecordsorganizestoragebureaucracyworkplace

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