U+1F4D6 "📖" Open Book Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
📖
U+1F4D6 "📖" Open Book is a pictographic representation of a book with its cover open and pages visible, symbolizing knowledge, reading, learning, or literature in digital communication. It is categorized under the "Objects" section of Unicode’s Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is widely used in text messages, social media, and software interfaces to denote education, study, a library, or the act of reading. The design of this emoji typically shows a blue or brown cover with white pages, often with text lines, and it is encoded at code point U+1F4D6 in the Unicode standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F4D6 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Open Book |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 📖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 📖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDCD6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F4D6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udcd6 |