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📕 Closed book
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📕 Emoji meaning
Education, knowledge, private matters, or a completed topic.
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📕 Meaning
You are a bookworm! Reading is one of the favorite pastimes, the book is almost finished or the book circle is going to meet up. Symbol for knowledge, culture and education.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Notebook with decorative cover vs closed book; both look like a single volume, styling only differs.
Closed book vs open book; both represent reading or literature.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Closed book” 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.
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+ education
In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
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- closed book
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ closed book
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ book + closed
