Objects · Emoji 0.6
📔Notebook with Decorative Cover Emoji
Generally, it just means someone is talking about a notebook or a book. It’s a visual way to add a touch of creativity to a message.
The 📔 emoji represents a decorative notebook or book cover.
- Unicode
- U+1F4D4
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :notebook_
with_ decorative_ cover: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📔 Notebook with Decorative Cover emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 8 of them.
02 — Platforms
Notebook with Decorative Cover emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F4D4. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Notebook with Decorative Cover 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_with_decorative_cover:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F4D4.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📔 Notebook with Decorative Cover emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Notebook with Decorative Cover emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the notebook with decorative cover as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Notebook with Decorative Cover emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around notebook with decorative cover 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
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
📔 vs 📓 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
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.
Unicode name: Notebook
Code: U+1F4D3 · added 2010
Shortcode: :notebook:
Generally, it just means a notebook or taking notes.
11 — History
Where the 📔 Notebook with Decorative Cover 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+1F4D4 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 E49D.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Notebook with Decorative Cover was approved as U+1F4D4 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