Official Meaning & Overview
Represents knowledge, learning, and reading. Use for studying, education, or libraries. Sparks intellectual curiosity.
Official Unicode CLDR Name
Books
Shortcode
:books:Related Meanings & Search Keywords
Bookslibrarystudyknowledgelearningreadingeducationbookfantasynovelsschool
Official Names in 9 Languages
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Unicode Codepoint Breakdown
Standard single-codepoint Unicode emoji character
📚
U+1F4DABooks
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⚙️Technical Info
Unicode
U+1F4DAHex Code
1F4DAShortcodes
:books:CLDRBooks
VersionEmoji 15.0
Developer Codes
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:books:HTML Entity (Hex)
📚HTML Entity (Dec)
📚CSS Content
\1F4DAJavaScript (ES6)
\u{1F4DA}UTF-16 / JSON
\uD83D\uDCDAURL Escape
%F0%9F%93%9AQuick Reference FAQ
What does the 📚 Books emoji mean?
Represents knowledge, learning, and reading. Use for studying, education, or libraries. Sparks intellectual curiosity.
What is the Unicode and HTML entity for 📚 Books?
The Unicode codepoint for 📚 is U+1F4DA, its HTML hex entity is 📚, and its shortcode is :books:. It is part of Emoji 15.0.
How do you say the 📚 Books emoji in other languages?
Official localized names include: 한국어 "책", 日本語 "本", 简体中文 "书籍", 繁體中文 "書籍", Español "Libros".