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🎒 Backpack
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🎒 Emoji meaning
Preparation, hiking, school, excursion, backpack, and school satchel.
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🎒 Meaning
We’re going back to school or we have vacation time! There is room in the satchel for books, notebooks and lunch. The emoji is mostly used in connection with school and education but also for traveling.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Clutch bag vs backpack; both bags for carrying items, only shape and use differ.
Backpack vs briefcase; both carried bags used for school/work contexts.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Backpack” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ backpacking + bookbag + education
In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there were 2 changes.
Emoji title renamed
Emoji title before
school backpack
Emoji title after
backpack
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ backpack + rucksack
Keywords removed
- school backpack
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ school backpack
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ bag + satchel + school
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords removed
- satchel
