The open file folder is your digital manila standby: a slightly ajar, tabbed folder ready to spill the tea—er, documents. On Apple/iOS it’s a rich yellow–manila folder shown at a gentle 3D tilt, flap open with crisp white pages peeking out, soft gradients and shadows giving it that freshly-pulled-from-the-desk-drawer vibe. No face, no fuss—just pure stationery energy that screams admin mode, project season, and “where did I save that PDF.” Visually, it’s the one that looks mid-action, like it’s inviting you to dive in.
People use it to mean files, receipts, and organization—everything from sharing a drive link to announcing a photo dump or study notes. In meme-speak, it’s the classic “I have the receipts” prop, the HR-voice “adding this to your file,” or the dramatic detective moment of “opening the dossier on you.” It can be playful or shady: flirtatiously hinting at a folder of your selfies, or sarcastically logging someone’s chaos for future reference. It’s also a tax-season mascot, a back-to-school mood, and a tidy brain-folder for life admin posts.
An open folder used for holding and organizing papers. Found in physical form in an office or in digital form as a computer icon.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1681 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :open_file_folder: |
| Keywords |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Office Symbols |
| Unicode Category | Artifacts |
| Unicode Subcategory | Office Symbols |
| Names & Annotations | OPEN FILE FOLDER Temporary Notes: open folder |
| Symbol Information | U+1F4C2 proposed |
| Proposal Identifier | e-544 |
| DoCoMo | [フォルダ] |
| KDDI | #84 フォルダ２(開) 「fuoruda２(開)」 U+E590 SJIS-F7AD JIS-782F |
| Softbank | [フォルダ] |
| 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) | 1f4c2 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F4C2 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128194 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0x82 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 93 82 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 223 202 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDCC2 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddcc2 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56514 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F4C2 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F4C2 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128194 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F4C2" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x93\x82" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDCC2" |
| Emoji Encoding | KDDI | |
|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | ||
| Decimal HTML Entity |  | 󾕄 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  | 󾕄 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e590 | fe544 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E590 | U+FE544 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 58768 | 1041732 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x96 0x90 | 0xF3 0xBE 0x95 0x84 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 96 90 | F3 BE 95 84 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 226 220 | 363 276 225 204 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE590 | 0xDBB9 0xDD44 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e590 | dbb9dd44 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 58768 | 56249 56644 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E590 | 0x000FE544 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E590 | 0FE544 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 58768 | 1041732 |
| Python Src | u"\uE590" | u"\U000FE544" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x96\x90" | "\xf3\xbe\x95\x84" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE590" | "\uDBB9\uDD44" |
