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📖 Open book
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📖 Emoji meaning
Reading, research, history, library, or revealing facts.
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📖 Meaning
“I just cannot put the book down” or “He's an open book to me!” Refers to reading as such or to a book. Popular emoji of the bookworm. Could also be a hint to get to the bottom of something.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Closed book vs open book; both represent reading or literature.
Newspaper vs open book; both reading materials, used generically for reading time.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Open 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 + fantasy + knowledge + library + novels + reading
In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
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- open book
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ open book
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ book + open
