The card index emoji is basically a tiny Rolodex shrine to analog organization — a throwback to when contacts lived on paper and your desk was the original CRM. It radiates retro office energy: Mad Men vibes, library stacks, and that one coworker who still loves index cards. On Apple/iOS, it looks like a neat little desktop flip file on a gray stand, stuffed with crisp white cards, metal rings, and colored tabs peeking out — shown at a slight 3/4 angle like it’s ready for a dramatic swivel. You can almost hear the satisfying flip-thwack of paper cards when you look at it.
Online, people use it to say “I’m filing that away,” “adding you to the contacts,” or “noted for future chaos.” It’s perfect for librarian/archivist moods, productivity posts, bullet journal bragging, or ironically dunking on bureaucracy: adding that to my A–Z of red flags. It can be low-key flirty too — going in my ‘favorite people’ tab — or meme-y: let me check my archives for the receipts (aka a paper trail, not screenshots). It also stands in for knowledge management nerdiness (Zettelkasten, index-card brains, Notion-but-paper) and any moment you want to convey vintage admin swagger. If your aesthetic is “stationery TikTok meets corporate ’80s montage,” this emoji is your desk mascot.
Definition
A card index (Rolodex) used to hold contact information for people. A convenient way to store phone numbers and addresses for people prior to digital address books, such as LivingAddress.com. The Apple version displays the contact "John Appleseed - appleseed@__.com 123 Main St. City Name, CA 95014. Work: (408) 123-4567 Home: (430) 765-4321." It is unknown who the man in orange shirt is on the Apple version.
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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)
1898 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
:card_index:
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
CARD INDEX
Symbol Information
U+1F4C7 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-54D
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#70 'Book' 本 U+E683 SJIS-F8E4 JIS-7558
KDDI
#131 Roldex U+E56C SJIS-F789 JIS-7769
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)
1f4c7
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4C7
Decimal Code Point(s)
128199
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0x87
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 93 87
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 223 207
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCC7
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddcc7
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56519
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4C7
UTF-32 Hex
01F4C7
UTF-32 Dec
128199
Python Src
u"\U0001F4C7"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x93\x87"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCC7"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
