The same publication as 📰 Newspaper, rolled into a tube and bound the way it would actually land on a doorstep. Past news and headlines, it moonlights as the classic prop for swatting a fly or a spider, the one job a rolled paper does that a folded one can't.
What 🗞️ means
A newspaper, similar to the 📰 Newspaper, just rolled up with a string of jute, to make a newspaper roll/bundle. The 🗞️ Rolled-Up Newspaper emoji could represent a freshly arrived newspaper or newspaper delivery which, in turn, indicates the early morning hours.
How and when to use it
- Speaking of a weapon, rolled newspapers in reality act as the most cost-effective way to casually whack someone. If a rolled newspaper is anything, it's a great way to whack some sense, knowledge, or judgment into someone. And, hence, 🗞️ comes into the picture.
- Examples, "Oh, man!! I really hope someone knocks some common sense into his thick skull 🗞️" or "I have news for ya! Use your damn senses! 🗞️".
- You could also use 🗞️ while referring to the dawn, or any time the newspaper taps at your front door - "Just woke up and went through my routine 🗞️" or "She arrived even before the newspaper! 🗞️".
- While sharing news posts or reposts, 🗞️ could be one of the emojis in the caption. It could be over a personal chat or a social media repost/story, just drop in this emoji to suggest the intention.
- In some strange alternate universe kind of a use-case, a rolled paper could also refer to a 'rolling paper'. So, 🗞️ may also be your choice while using a rolling paper in any context.
Other Names
- 🗞️ Rolled Newspaper
- 🗞️ Newspaper
- 🗞️ Bundle of Newspapers
- 🗞️ Newspaper Delivery
- 🗞️ Early Morning Hours
- 🗞️ Fresh Newspaper
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › book-paper
- Codepoints
U+1F5DE U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:newspaper_roll:GitHub- Keywords
- news, newspaper, paper, rolled, rolled-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 — 🗞️ Rolled-up Newspaper or 🦑 Squid?