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Ledger Emoji 📒

A spiral-bound notebook with hard yellow covers, drawn to read as an accounting ledger rather than a school notebook. It turns up in posts about budgeting and bookkeeping and in any running tally — workouts, habits, scores — where the numbers matter more than the prose.

What 📒 means

A standing spiral-bound book with yellow hard binds on both ends and a metal spiral in between. The 📒 Ledger emoji is simply a picture of any spiral-bound book. But, by the name, it signifies a written record of important details, accounts, transactions, etc.

How and when to use it

If you're in the process of or kickstarting a difficult conversation about a debt(s), 📒 could mellow down possible discomfort. For example, "As far as our accounts matter 📒, I think you still have my 25 dollars :)".
You could also use 📒 to speak of your own debt. Like, "To be clear, on every account, I don't owe anybody anything! 📒 Not even an explanation".
Speaking of debts and accounts, 📒 could also be a metaphorical icon for a list of one's doings; karma, to be precise. For instance, "Everything's recorded, my friend 📒. It's hard to believe, but you are, indeed responsible for your actions and their consequences".
Use 📒 even while asking someone to make an important note of something. It could be a list of transactions, an advise to be more mindful of expenditure, etc - "I'd honestly suggest you to keep tabs on your monthly expenses 📒. Yes, I mean it. Write them down".

Other Names

📒 Accounts Book
📒 Book of Transactions
📒 Daybook
📒 Book of Journal Entries
📒 Register
📒 Spiral Bound Book
📒 Binder
📒 Yellow Book
📒 Spiral Binder
📒 Record Book

The lowdown

Category: Objects › book-paper
Codepoints: U+1F4D2
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :ledger:
Keywords: ledger, notebook

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.