📅

Calendar Emoji 📅

A single date sitting on a page from a desk calendar, the emoji almost everyone reaches for by default whenever a date, deadline, or event comes up. It covers appointments, birthdays, and invites more than either of its two visual cousins, 📆 Tear-Off Calendar and 🗓️ Spiral Calendar, which mean the same thing but get used far less in practice.

What 📅 means

A square calendar showing the 17th of July with a minute depiction of the rest of the dates in the month on the top right corner. There's no mention of the year neither space for it.

Representing a measurement of time, the 📅 Calendar emoji suggests the date and month. This emoji refers to the turning calendar, which could also suggest recorded memories on the calendar as it is not tearable.

How and when to use it

📅 focuses on the monthly divisions of the calendar -it takes it one month at a time. So, if you're referring to anything that's per monthly, use 📅. Like, "It's honestly a monthly struggle for me 📅".
A calendar could also signify 'schedules' or the act of 'scheduling' something - "Can we push the dates a little? 📅" or "I'm sorry we had to call it a night. We could definitely catch up next weekend 📅".
Use 📅 while referring to time. For instance, "It's just a matter of time 📅" or "Give it time; days, months, years, whatever it needs 📅".
You could also use 📅 while stating the famous time flies rhetoric.
Similarly, 📅 can be brought into contexts that are exactly the opposite of the previous point. For example, "Oh man. January feels like FOREVER away! I just cannot waittt 📅".
And generally, use 📅 while announcing the date(s) for any event either on your social media handle or even in personal messages.

Other Names

📅 Calendar
📅 Turning Calendar
📅 July 17th
📅 Annual Calendar
📅 Yearly Calendar
📅 Almanac
📅 Per Month
📅 Monthly Calendar

The lowdown

Category: Objects › office
Codepoints: U+1F4C5
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :date:
Keywords: calendar, date

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.