Objects · Emoji 0.7
🗄️File Cabinet Emoji
Generally, it means “files” or “documents.” It’s often used when someone is talking about paperwork, records, or needing to find information.
The 🗄️ emoji represents a file cabinet.
- Unicode
- U+1F5C4 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :file_
cabinet: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🗄️ File Cabinet emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
People also look for it as filing cabinet emoji.
02 — Platforms
File Cabinet emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F5C4. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 8.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
File Cabinet 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 :file_cabinet:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the file cabinet, code point U+1F5C4.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🗄️ File Cabinet emoji
No picker to hand? The file cabinet can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
File Cabinet emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 8. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
File Cabinet emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around file cabinet 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+1F5C4, 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: File Cabinet
Code: U+1F5C4 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :file_cabinet:
Generally, it means “files” or “documents.”
Unicode name: Card File Box
Code: U+1F5C3 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :card_file_box:
Generally, it means “information,” “data,” or “something kept private.”
11 — History
Where the 🗄️ File Cabinet emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the file cabinet to 2014.
Same character every time — U+1F5C4 U+FE0F 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.
File Cabinet was approved as U+1F5C4 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🗄️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ