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School Emoji 🏫

A building with a flag out front, styled like a classic schoolhouse — that's the school emoji. It's used for being at school, the school year starting back up, and studying in general, common in both first-day-of-school posts and 'ugh, back to class' complaints.

What 🏫 means

This urban school building stands tall, with an upward-pointed roof at the center, a huge clock below it, and a door set beneath a protective overhang. On either side are windows.

The 🏫 School emoji signifies education, a place of learning, literacy, nurturing, growth, and friendships too. This emoji also evokes a sense of discipline, companionship, togetherness, and routine.

How and when to use it

If someone is smart mouthing you either in the comments section, on a group chat, or even personally, you can use 🏫 - suggesting "Please get yourself some education 🏫".
🏫 is always a great way to get back at someone when they clearly lack knowledge, sensitivity, and awareness about a subject.
Besides, you can also use 🏫 to mock someone in a friendly framework (or not). For instance, "Too bad they didn't teach you consent in school🏫, you jerk".
While sharing nostalgic pictures of school, school friends, and anything related to this institute of learning, you must add🏫 in the caption or within text messages.
Also, if the caption to your picture/video has the word 'school' in it, or it resonates with the general concept of schooling, you can use 🏫. For example, "We're all just another brick in the wall 🏫" (if you get it, you get it).

Other Names

🏫 Educational Institute
🏫 Academy
🏫 Place of Learning
🏫 Clock Tower
🏫 Middle School
🏫 High School
🏫 Elementary School
🏫 Schooling

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › place-building
Codepoints: U+1F3EB
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :school:
Keywords: building, school

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.