A board with a metal clip at the top holding down a sheet of paper, usually printed with a checklist or ruled lines, though the exact form varies by design. It's shorthand for tasks, official paperwork, and to-do lists, an inspection, a form, a survey, and it also stands in for copy-and-paste in software, since that's literally what a clipboard does on a computer.
What 📋 means
A vertically rectangular thin wooden board with a wide paper clip attached on top, holding down a printed white sheet of paper. Sometimes, this paper may be plain or containing something handwritten.
The 📋 Clipboard emoji could represent a checklist, an examination sheet or clipboard, an attendance sheet, anything that could involve rechecking or manually entering data.
How and when to use it
- In the contexts of check listing or 'fitting something' into given criteria, use 📋. For example, "They apparently had a checklist 📋and we weren't even aware of it" or "I think I don't fit into your stupid criteria 📋. Coz I have an attribute that's not on it; I don't give a flying f*ck".
- Use 📋 even while talking about school/college/university exams, preparations, or preps; it could be a personal post/story or even an informative post. Like, "Here are ten ways to concentrate better for your exams! 📋".
- 📋 can signify rules as well, or even just a list which is to an extent, official. For instance, "These are the rules you'd have to go through before the game 📋", "What are rules if they're meant to be broken?", or "Just check the list first 📋 I don't think he's on it".
- Although clipboards by themselves are versatile, 📋 would specifically refer to clipboards with printed sheets. However, you may use this emoji in both cases.
Other Names
- 📋 Clipboard With Printed Papers
- 📋 Examination Clipboard
- 📋 Check List
- 📋 Attendance List
- 📋 Criteria
- 📋 Rules
- 📋 List
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › office
- Codepoints
U+1F4CB- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:clipboard:- Keywords
- clipboard, do, list, notes
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 📋 Clipboard or 🪚 Carpentry Saw?
Runs with a crowd
📋 keeps company in school emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.