Objects · Emoji 0.6
📓Notebook Emoji
Generally, it just means a notebook or taking notes. People often use it when they're talking about schoolwork or writing something down.
The 📓 emoji is a notebook.
- Unicode
- U+1F4D3
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :notebook:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📓 Notebook emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Notebook emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the notebook as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Notebook emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :notebook:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the notebook, code point U+1F4D3.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📓 Notebook emoji
No picker to hand? The notebook can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Notebook 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Notebook emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around notebook for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 📓 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 📓 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the notebook lands changes how it is taken.
10 — Difference
📓 vs 📔 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Notebook
Code: U+1F4D3 · added 2010
Shortcode: :notebook:
Generally, it just means a notebook or taking notes.
Unicode name: Notebook with Decorative Cover
Code: U+1F4D4 · added 2010
Shortcode: :notebook_with_decorative_cover:
Generally, it just means someone is talking about a notebook or a book.
11 — History
Where the 📓 Notebook 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+1F4D3 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 E683, KDDI au E56B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Notebook was approved as U+1F4D3 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.
12 — FAQ