Symbol for Marks Chapter refers to a proposed or discussed Unicode/emoji-style symbol concept for marking a chapter, section, or notable passage in text. It appears to belong to the broad 2014-era discussion space around adding more pictographic symbols, interface marks, and culturally specific sign icons to emoji keyboards, but it never became an officially approved emoji. The likely intended use was practical rather than emotional: indicating a chapter break, a bookmarked section, a study note, a cited passage, or a highlighted part of a story, document, manga, scripture, or online thread. People may have wanted such a symbol because emoji were increasingly being used not only for faces and feelings, but also as compact visual labels for organization, reading, fandom commentary, and social media navigation.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
