A tidy stack of hardcovers, the books emoji is basically the academic bat-signal. On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot three colorful hardbacks neatly piled at a slight angle—think bright, saturated covers (often green, blue, and red) with light page edges peeking out and clean, glossy spines you can almost hear thud onto a library desk. It screams study mode, syllabus week, and that feeling when your backpack becomes a portable gym.
Online, people drop this emoji to signal “I’m busy learning things,” whether that’s cramming for finals, flexing a reading list, or humble-bragging about finishing a 500-page fantasy saga at 2 a.m. It thrives in BookTok and Bookstagram captions, cozy fall aesthetics, and dark-academia mood boards. It’s also prime sarcasm: “I’ll read the instructions 📚 (no I won’t),” or “Going to the ‘library’ 📚” before vanishing to binge a show. In DMs, it can be flirty-scholar: “Study date? 📚😉” Translation: coffee, vibes, light chaos.
Culturally, it nods to classroom life, library whispers, and that universal tradition of buying textbooks you barely open. It can mean wholesome introvert energy, self-improvement arcs, or a meme-y “knowledge flex” when someone drops facts like a professor on TikTok. Expect it around back-to-school season, book club invites, Goodreads updates, and every “cozy nook + candle + sweater weather” post. TL;DR: when you need to signal brain gains, literary vibes, or the noble art of procrastinating productively—this stack delivers.
Definition
Many books stacked on one another. A collection of hard-backed books ready to be read. These books could be any type of books, such as textbooks, fiction (not real) books, or non-fiction (real) books. This emoji is used frequently with communicating about school, education, or a library.
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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)
330 of 2393
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ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:books:
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
BOOKS Temporary Notes: multiple, a stack of books
Symbol Information
U+1F4DA proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-503
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#70 'Book' 本 U+E683 SJIS-F8E4 JIS-7558
KDDI
#147 複数本 U+E56F SJIS-F78C JIS-776C
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)
1f4da
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4DA
Decimal Code Point(s)
128218
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0x9A
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 93 9A
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 223 232
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCDA
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddcda
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56538
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4DA
UTF-32 Hex
01F4DA
UTF-32 Dec
128218
Python Src
u"\U0001F4DA"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x93\x9a"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCDA"
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