Objects · Emoji 0.6
📘Blue Book Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 📘 emoji in a text, they’re just referencing the book itself. It’s often used to point out something related to reading, learning, or an educational topic.
The 📘 emoji represents a blue hardcover book.
- Unicode
- U+1F4D8
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :blue_
book: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📘 Blue Book emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
02 — Platforms
Blue Book emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the blue 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
Blue Book emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :blue_book:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the blue book, code point U+1F4D8.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📘 Blue Book emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F4D8 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Blue Book emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the blue 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
Blue Book emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around blue 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 blue book and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 📘 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the blue book 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: Blue Book
Code: U+1F4D8 · added 2010
Shortcode: :blue_book:
Generally, when someone sends you the 📘 emoji in a text, they’re just referencing the book itself.
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 📘 Blue 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+1F4D8 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 E566.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Blue Book was approved as U+1F4D8 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