Objects · Emoji 0.7
🗞️Rolled-up Newspaper Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 🗞️ emoji in a text, they're just pointing out that something is important or new information. It’s a quick way to grab your attention and signal that there’s something to see.
The 🗞️ emoji is a rolled-up newspaper.
- Unicode
- U+1F5DE U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :rolled_
up_ newspaper: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🗞️ Rolled-up Newspaper emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as news emoji, newspaper emoji.
02 — Platforms
Rolled-up Newspaper emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the rolled-up newspaper as 8 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Rolled-up Newspaper 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 :rolled_up_newspaper:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the rolled-up newspaper, code point U+1F5DE.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🗞️ Rolled-up Newspaper emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Rolled-up Newspaper 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
Rolled-up Newspaper emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around rolled-up 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 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 rolled-up newspaper 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: 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.
Unicode name: Page Facing Up
Code: U+1F4C4 · added 2010
Shortcode: :page_facing_up:
Generally, it just means a document or paper.
11 — History
Where the 🗞️ Rolled-up Newspaper emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the rolled-up newspaper to 2014.
Same character every time — U+1F5DE 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.
Rolled-up Newspaper was approved as U+1F5DE 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