Objects · Emoji 0.6
📕Closed Book Emoji
Generally, it just means “I don’t know” or “Let’s see.” People often use it in chats to indicate they’re waiting for information.
The 📕 emoji is a closed book.
- Unicode
- U+1F4D5
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :closed_
book: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📕 Closed Book emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Closed Book emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the closed book has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Closed Book emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :closed_book:.
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+1F4D5.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📕 Closed Book emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F4D5 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Closed Book 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
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Closed Book emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around closed book 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
Chat apps do not change U+1F4D5, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
📕 vs 📗 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Closed Book
Code: U+1F4D5 · added 2010
Shortcode: :closed_book:
Generally, it just means “I don’t know” or “Let’s see.”
Unicode name: Green Book
Code: U+1F4D7 · added 2010
Shortcode: :green_book:
Generally, when someone sends you the 📗 emoji, they're signaling that they have some information or knowledge to share, or that they’re recommending a thoughtful read.
11 — History
Where the 📕 Closed Book 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+1F4D5 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 E568.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Closed Book was approved as U+1F4D5 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