A green hardcover book, unmarked apart from its color, one-third of a trio rounded out by 📘 Blue Book and 📙 Orange Book. Unicode never gave the covers a meaning of their own, so the color is whatever a reader makes it: a subject, a mood, a shelf in a study-desk photo where all three turn up together.
What 📗 means
A green book, similar in design as the 📕 Closed Book but with 'Vol 2' printed on the front. Historically speaking, the 📗 Green Book emoji could signify travel guidance, but generally, this emoji suggests education and learning about nature, the environment, the climate, etc.
How and when to use it
- While sharing information and educative content on nature, climate, crises, and conservation, you could use 📗. For example, "This environment day, let's learn all the ways we could better love our planet 📗" or "Conserving the climate shouldn't be a question up for debate, it ought to be the rule of the land 📗".
- Speaking of the environment 📗 could be used to indicate an 'Environmental Studies' or EVS textbook.
- On a common note, the color green symbolizes peace, life, and a sense of being closer to nature and living organically. So, if any context fits these aspects along with education and learning, feel free to use 📗. For instance, "Go on, wild one. Learn to live from the forests 📗".
- That being said, 📗 can also be used to refer to any book with a green cover; a novel, a textbook, a magazine, holy books, etc.
Other Names
- 📗 The Green Book
- 📗 A Closed Green Book
- 📗 Volume 2
- 📗 Green Textbook
- 📗 Book With Green Cover
- 📗 Nature Book
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › book-paper
- Codepoints
U+1F4D7- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:green_book:- Keywords
- book, education, fantasy, green, library, reading
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 — 📗 Green Book or 🥴 Woozy Face?
Runs with a crowd
📗 keeps company in green emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.