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Meaning & usage
What does the Spiral Notepad emoji mean?
A spiral-bound notepad, for lists, notes and planning.
Organised and plain. It suits a list more than a thought.
How to use 🗒️ naturally
To-do posts, journalling and meeting notes.
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 🗒️
- 2014
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Spiral Notepad was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. Another retrospective label, covering characters recognised as emoji in 2014.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2014 with a visible wire spiral along the top edge. The spiral is the only feature separating it from the plain page beside it in the document set.
- Today
How its use evolved
To-do posts, journalling and meeting notes.
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.
Everything went on paper this morning 🗒️
Four pages of notes, two useful 🗒️
New notebook, new system, same me 🗒️
When to use it
Using 🗒️ clearly
To-do posts, journalling and meeting notes. It lands as notepad 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 spiral notepad emoji
What does 🗒️ mean in a text message?
A spiral-bound notepad, for lists, notes and planning. Organised and plain. It suits a list more than a thought.
Is 🗒️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are notepad emoji, 🗒️ meaning, notes emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🗒️ look different on another device?
U+1F5D2 U+FE0F 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 spiral notepad 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 spiral notepad emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🗒️ as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. 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+1F5D2 U+FE0F | 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 | \1F5D2 \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F5D2}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%97%92%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F5D2 U+FE0F
- Category
- Objects & Tech
- Also known as
- notepad emoji🗒️ meaningnotes emoji
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