The orange book emoji is the cheery hardcover you drop when it’s study o’clock or you’re channeling cozy fall-campus energy. On Apple/iOS it’s a closed, candy-bright orange hardback, shown in a slight 3/4 tilt with the spine on the left and crisp white page edges—clean face, no title, no bookmark, just that glossy “new textbook” vibe. It sits in the same family as the blue and green books, but the orange cover reads like highlighter energy: urgent, energetic, a little spicy. People use it for homework check-ins, reading logs, book club pitches, library hauls, and back-to-school posts.
It’s also great for emoji color-coding—orange can signal self-help, tech manuals, or a hot take you “read somewhere.” In chats it pairs with coffee, brain, or fire to say hit the books, cram time, or I’m dropping knowledge. Sarcastically, it doubles as the universal “sure, I totally read the terms and conditions” or “I did my research (YouTube link pending).” In niche circles it can nod to the FDA’s Orange Book (pharmacy world) or the old-school infosec “Orange Book.” Flirty dramatics? “I could write a book about you”—then this little orange rectangle. And when someone posts a 40-tweet thread, a single orange book under it reads: TL;DR, chief.
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. 4 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)
1416 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
:orange_book:
Keywords
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Office Symbols
Editorial Comment
Who needs an orange book when you can have a purple book! Am I rite?
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
Office Symbols
Names & Annotations
ORANGE BOOK Old name: BOOK-3 Temporary Notes: orange colored book (closed)
Symbol Information
U+1F4D9 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-501
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#70 'Book' 本 U+E683 SJIS-F8E4 JIS-7558
KDDI
#101 本３ U+E567 SJIS-F784 JIS-7764
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)
1f4d9
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4D9
Decimal Code Point(s)
128217
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0x99
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 93 99
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 223 231
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCD9
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddcd9
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56537
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4D9
UTF-32 Hex
01F4D9
UTF-32 Dec
128217
Python Src
u"\U0001F4D9"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x93\x99"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCD9"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
