The newspaper emoji is your pocket-sized front page—perfect for shouting “breaking!” or, more realistically, “I have a link you should read.” It swings between serious journalism vibes and playful gossip energy, like yelling “extra! extra!” about your group chat drama. People drop it when sharing headlines, blog posts, press releases, or when they’re doing an ironic “this just in” about something everyone already knows. Expect it in memes about wild headlines (hello, Florida Man) or the classic “Local Man” trope from The Simpsons-era newspaper gags.
On Apple devices, it appears as a folded, grayscale broadsheet with a bold, all-caps “NEWS” masthead at the top, neat columns of thin lines for text, and a little rectangular photo box—clean, crisp, and slightly angled like it’s fresh off the breakfast table. The shading is subtle, the edges tidy, and the layout screams “front page” even if you only glance for half a second. It’s instantly recognizable as old-school print, not a website, which gives it that tactile, retro credibility.
In chats, it can mean “big update,” “official statement,” or “spilling the tea but make it formal.” Used sarcastically, it tags something as old news, eye-rolls at clickbait, or dunks on “fake news” discourse. Pair it with a siren or megaphone for breaking-news drama, or with coffee to serve Sunday-paper coziness—crossword, coupons, comics, the whole nostalgic routine. It also lands as “I did my research” energy, whether you actually have receipts or just want to look editorially important.
Definition
A newspaper is a publication that includes news (information that is new). Newspapers include many different types of stories and a wide spectrum of information, including current events, politics, arts, and financials. The internet has made it difficult for many newspaper publishers to maintain a physical distribution. Some of the most circulated newspapers in the United States are The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today. The Apple version emoji includes the text, "The Apple Times" and includes an image of an erupting volcano.
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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)
1151 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
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Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:newspaper:
Keywords
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Communication Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
Communication Symbols
Names & Annotations
NEWSPAPER
Symbol Information
U+1F4F0 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-822
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[新聞]
KDDI
#171 新聞 U+E58B SJIS-F7A8 JIS-782A
Softbank
[新聞]
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)
1f4f0
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4F0
Decimal Code Point(s)
128240
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0xB0
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 93 B0
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 223 260
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCF0
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddcf0
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56560
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4F0
UTF-32 Hex
01F4F0
UTF-32 Dec
128240
Python Src
u"\U0001F4F0"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x93\xb0"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCF0"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
