Calendar Emoji
A tear-off desk calendar showing a single date, used for scheduling and deadlines.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Calendar emoji mean?
A tear-off desk calendar showing a single date, used for scheduling and deadlines.
Administrative and neutral. It carries no feeling at all, which is why it survives in work messages where almost every other emoji would look out of place.
How to use 📅 naturally
Dates, plans, reminders and anything being booked in.
Object emoji usually point to an activity or topic rather than an emotion. They work well as labels in lists, captions and announcements, where the image makes the subject easy to scan.
From standard to slang
The history of 📅
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Calendar was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A desk calendar with the top sheet curling, showing a single date. Apple draws 17 July, widely assumed to mark the day iCal was announced in 2002 though Apple has never confirmed it. Emojipedia picked that date for World Emoji Day in 2014 because of this artwork, and other platforms moved their calendars to 17 July afterwards to match.
- Today
How its use evolved
Dates, plans, reminders and anything being booked in.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 📅 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Put it in for the 14th 📅
Deadline moved to Friday 📅
Booked, see you then 📅
When to use it
Using 📅 clearly
Dates, plans, reminders and anything being booked in. It lands as calendar emoji or 📅 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the calendar emoji
What does 📅 mean in a text message?
A tear-off desk calendar showing a single date, used for scheduling and deadlines. Administrative and neutral. It carries no feeling at all, which is why it survives in work messages where almost every other emoji would look out of place.
Is 📅 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are calendar emoji, 📅 meaning, date emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 📅 look different on another device?
U+1F4C5 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the calendar emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 📅 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the calendar emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 📅 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
📅 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F4C5 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 📅 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 📅 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F4C5 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4C5} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%93%85 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F4C5
- Category
- Objects & Tech
- Also known as
- calendar emoji📅 meaningdate emoji
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