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Stack of books emoji

📚 Books

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📚 Emoji meaning

Preparation, study mode, library, college, or self-development.

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📚 Meaning

What am I trying to find out? Where can I find the information? The stack of books is growing. Someone was in the library or the bookstore, has to study or do something for school/university. Refers to reading in general, to literature and education. Books symbolize the quest for knowledge and the ability to learn from the opinions and experiences of others.

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Commonly confused with

Color Variant

Books

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Orange book vs books; single colored book vs stack of books, both for study or library.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Books” 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

+ education + fantasy + knowledge + library + novels + reading + school + study

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

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Keywords added

+ books

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ book

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

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- books

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