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Closed book

Depicted across most platforms as a red book, this hardcover novel is known as the closed book emoji. It’s best used to communicate anything book-related such as studies, schoolwork, homework, reading, or writing. In Apple’s library, the closed book is volume 1 in a short series of colored novels by author John Appleseed.

Keywords: book, closed
Codepoints: 1F4D5
Introduced: October, 2010 in Unicode version 6.0.0 (Emoji version 0.6)
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