🏫School Emoji
Usually, it just means school. People use it to represent education or a school setting in a text.
The 🏫 emoji shows a school building.
- Unicode
- U+1F3EB
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :school:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🏫 School emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
School emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F3EB. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
School emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :school:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F3EB.
How to type the 🏫 School emoji
No picker to hand? The school can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
School emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
School emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around school for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🏫, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🏫 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🏫 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F3EB, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🏫 School emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3EB never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🏫 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E73E, KDDI au EA80, SoftBank E157.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
School was approved as U+1F3EB and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🏫 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.