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 Microsoft

Category Objects

Subcategory book-paper

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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