📁

File Folder Emoji 📁

A closed manila folder, its tab standing up along the top edge, holding whatever's inside out of view. It gets used constantly outside any literal folder too, for grouping files on a phone, tagging a project, or bundling related documents and links together in one place. Its open counterpart, 📂 Open File Folder, is the one people reach for once that folder's actually being worked in.

What 📁 means

An empty grey rectangular file folder with a tiny elevation on the top rim of one flap. On most platforms, this emoji is yellow and on the rest, it's blue.

Popularly, the 📁 File Folder emoji represents the 'folder icon' found on computers and laptops. Thus, this emoji would signify a case for important documents, just like the function of the electronic file icon.

How and when to use it

Since 📁 is an empty file folder, it could signify that you're yet to make some important docs or something that would sell from a professional POV. For example, "I'm yet to put something big onto my CV 📁" or "My portfolio is an empty slate right now 📁".
You can use 📁 even while indicating that something or somebody has been 'filed under' a label, tag, or anything that makes categorizing easier. For instance, "I don't think that would be possible. She's filed under some of the best employees 📁".
Generally, 📁 can be used to refer to anything of significant importance. Like, "Handle it with care, btw. That stuff is important 📁".
📁 could be used to refer to downloads; downloadable files, links or even images that ought to be downloaded in order to be consumed - "Click the link to download the rules of the event 📁".

Other Names

📁 Empty Folder
📁 Folder Icon
📁 Grey Folder
📁 Empty File Folder
📁 Folder
📁 Empty Portfolio
📁 Document Case

The lowdown

Category: Objects › office
Codepoints: U+1F4C1
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :file_folder:
Keywords: file, folder

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.