U+1F56E "🕮" Book Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🕮
U+1F56E "🕮" Book is a pictographic symbol representing a generic open book, often depicted with a bookmark or a bookmark-like shape on its spine. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, included in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, and is commonly used in digital communication to denote reading, knowledge, education, libraries, or literature. Its design typically shows two facing pages, and it appears across various platforms and operating systems with slight stylistic differences, though its core meaning as a representation of a book remains consistent.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F56E |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | 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 0x95 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD6E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F56E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd6e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |