Objects · Emoji 0.6
📖Open Book Emoji
Basically, it just means “book” or “reading.” People often use it to reference a book they’re reading or to show they’re discussing something related to literature.
The 📖 emoji is an open book.
- Unicode
- U+1F4D6
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :book:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📖 Open Book emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Open Book emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the open book 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
Open Book emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :book:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4D6.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📖 Open Book emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Open Book emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the open book 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
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Open Book emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around open 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
Who sent the open book and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 📖 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F4D6, 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: Open Book
Code: U+1F4D6 · added 2010
Shortcode: :book:
Basically, it just means “book” or “reading.”
Unicode name: Closed Book
Code: U+1F4D5 · added 2010
Shortcode: :closed_book:
Generally, it just means “I don’t know” or “Let’s see.”
11 — History
Where the 📖 Open 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+1F4D6 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 E49F, SoftBank E148.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Open Book was approved as U+1F4D6 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