Scroll Emoji

Objects

A long, cream-colored roll of parchment tied with a piece of red string. It depicts a classic document style from pre-modern times, showing the textured, coiled edges of aged paper.

Usage Context

Used to represent formal documents, legal contracts, historical records, or academic degrees. It often pops up in conversations about literature, creative writing, or high-fantasy settings. Users might pair it with 🖋️ to discuss writing or 🏛️ when referencing ancient civilizations.

History

Before digital screens, the scroll was the primary method for storing long-form information in the ancient world, like the library of Alexandria. This emoji was added to Unicode in 2010 to provide a graphical shorthand for manuscripts, replacing the need for complex text descriptors in early database interfaces.

Details

Glyph

📜

Unicode

U+1F4DC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f4dc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDCDC;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Objects

Subcategory book-paper

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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