A typed sheet of paper with a folded top corner, Unicode's generic icon for a single document of any kind. It covers paperwork broadly — a form to fill out, a file attached to a message, a page worth flagging — plainer than the curled 📃 Page With Curl.
What 📄 means
A typed A4-sized sheet of white paper with the printed format of a letter, characterized by a triangular fold on the top left corner.
The 📄 Page Facing Up emoji represents the draft icon and suggests a bookmarked page, a drafted piece of content, or an important/memorable page in a book.
How and when to use it
- We're all familiar with online and offline bookmarking - essentially saving the pages that we'd want to return to in the future. If you're using a reference to this in any way, use 📄 - "Each time you do something empowering, save that memory 📄. It always comes in handy".
- You could also use 📄 in contexts related to documents/documenting or reading, in general. For example, "She's documenting the background 📄 I'm focusing on the rest".
- If you're texting someone that you'll get back to something in a while, something mostly related to writing or reading, you can use 📄. Like, "Yes, I'm halfway through. I'll get back to it in just a bit 📄".
- If you're sharing the drafts for anything, you may add 📄 in that context; it could be a composed letter, a document containing your writing piece, or even a picture/post that you saved in the drafts.
Other Names
- 📄 Bookmarked Page
- 📄 Bookmark
- 📄 Document
- 📄 Draft
- 📄 Draft Icon
- 📄 Printed Page
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › book-paper
- Codepoints
U+1F4C4- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:page_facing_up:- Keywords
- document, facing, page, paper, up
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 — 📄 Page Facing Up or 🇨🇩 Flag: Congo - Kinshasa?