Objects · Emoji 0.6
🔖Bookmark Emoji
Generally, it means "bookmark" or "save." People use it to indicate they want to remember something or that they’ve saved it for later reference.
The 🔖 emoji is a little ribbon bookmark.
- Unicode
- U+1F516
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :bookmark:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🔖 Bookmark emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Bookmark emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F516. 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
Bookmark emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :bookmark:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the bookmark, code point U+1F516.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🔖 Bookmark emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F516 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Bookmark emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the bookmark 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
06 — Combinations
Bookmark emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around bookmark 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 bookmark and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 🔖 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
🔖 vs 📑 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Bookmark
Code: U+1F516 · added 2010
Shortcode: :bookmark:
Generally, it means "bookmark" or "save."
Unicode name: Bookmark Tabs
Code: U+1F4D1 · added 2010
Shortcode: :bookmark_tabs:
Basically, it means "bookmarks" or "tabs."
11 — History
Where the 🔖 Bookmark 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+1F516 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 EB07.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Bookmark was approved as U+1F516 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