📝Memo Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you 📝 in a text, they’re just sharing a quick note or reminder with you. It's a simple way to get your attention and pass along a small message.
The 📝 emoji represents a memo or note.
- Unicode
- U+1F4DD
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :memo:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 📝 Memo emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
People also look for it as pencil emoji.
Memo emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F4DD. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Memo emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :memo:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the memo, code point U+1F4DD.
How to type the 📝 Memo emoji
No picker to hand? The memo can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Memo emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the memo as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Memo emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around memo for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 📝, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 📝 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 📝 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F4DD, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 📝 Memo 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+1F4DD 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 E689, KDDI au EA92, SoftBank E301.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Memo was approved as U+1F4DD 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.