Objects · Emoji 0.6
📰Newspaper Emoji
Basically, it means “news” or “this article.” People use it to point out something they’ve read or are sharing with others.
The 📰 emoji represents a newspaper.
- Unicode
- U+1F4F0
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :newspaper:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📰 Newspaper emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Newspaper emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F4F0 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your newspaper looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Newspaper emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :newspaper:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the newspaper, code point U+1F4F0.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📰 Newspaper emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Newspaper 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
06 — Combinations
Newspaper emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around newspaper 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 with 📰, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 📰 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the newspaper and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 📰 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F4F0, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
📰 vs 🗞️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Newspaper
Code: U+1F4F0 · added 2010
Shortcode: :newspaper:
Basically, it means “news” or “this article.”
Unicode name: Rolled-up Newspaper
Code: U+1F5DE U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :rolled_up_newspaper:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🗞️ emoji in a text, they're just pointing out that something is important or new information.
12 — History
Where the 📰 Newspaper 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+1F4F0 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
KDDI au E58B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Newspaper was approved as U+1F4F0 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.
13 — FAQ