Objects · Emoji 0.6
📙Orange Book Emoji
Generally, it just means a book. People use it to reference a specific book, or to talk about reading in general.
The 📙 emoji is a closed book.
- Unicode
- U+1F4D9
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :orange_
book: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📙 Orange Book emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
02 — Platforms
Orange Book emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F4D9. 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
Orange Book 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 :orange_book:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the orange book, code point U+1F4D9.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📙 Orange Book emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Orange 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
Orange Book emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around orange 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+1F4D9, 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: Orange Book
Code: U+1F4D9 · added 2010
Shortcode: :orange_book:
Generally, it just means a book.
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 📙 Orange 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+1F4D9 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 E567.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Orange Book was approved as U+1F4D9 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