The blue book emoji is the tidy, closed hardcover that whispers, “I did the reading,” even if you’re actually doomscrolling. On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy cobalt-blue hardback shown at a slight three-quarter angle, with pale pages peeking on the right and a chunky spine on the left—clean, minimal, instantly recognizable. Some platforms hint at a subtle title stripe or even a generic “BOOK,” but the vibe stays the same: calm, studious, a little LinkedIn-core. People drop it for study grinds, book club picks, syllabus announcements, or to signal “I brought receipts.”
Online, 📘 doubles as the “manual/documentation” icon—aka RTFM energy in developer chats—and shows up when someone posts sources or cites chapters like a boss. It’s also prime for sarcasm: “brb hitting the books” while you open Netflix, or the classic “read a book” to swat away a bad take. There’s cultural spillover, too: Bluebook legal citations, old-school exam blue books, even Kelley Blue Book car values—all get shorthand nods with this icon. The color reads cool and trustworthy, so it pairs well with academic flexes, library aesthetics, and “deep lore” threads. Use it earnestly to track your reading list, or ironically to look smarter on main; either way, 📘 is peak organized-brain energy with a hint of teacher’s pet chic.
Definition
A blue closed hard-back book. This emoji could be any book, such as a textbook or a cook book. A fiction (not real) or non-fiction (real) book. The Apple version includes the text "Vol. 3 by John Appleseed" on the cover. A favorite emoji of book worms everywhere (people that love to read).
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1620 of 2393
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ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:blue_book:
Keywords
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Office Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
Office Symbols
Names & Annotations
BLUE BOOK Old name: BOOK-2 Temporary Notes: blue colored book (closed)
Symbol Information
U+1F4D8 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-500
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#70 'Book' 本 U+E683 SJIS-F8E4 JIS-7558
KDDI
#100 本２ U+E566 SJIS-F783 JIS-7763
Softbank
#236 #old162 本 U+E148 SJIS-F789
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
📘
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
📘
Decimal HTML Entity
📘
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
📘
Hex Code Point(s)
1f4d8
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4D8
Decimal Code Point(s)
128216
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0x98
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 93 98
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 223 230
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCD8
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddcd8
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56536
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4D8
UTF-32 Hex
01F4D8
UTF-32 Dec
128216
Python Src
u"\U0001F4D8"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x93\x98"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCD8"
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