Scroll emoji meaning

The scroll emoji shows an image of a rolled-up piece of paper, representing how documents and writings were preserved in ancient times before the invention of books. Scrolls were often made from materials like parchment or papyrus and were used for important texts, including historical records, laws, and decrees. This emoji is often associated with old knowledge, history, or formal declarations. It can also represent learning, storytelling, or anything connected to ancient traditions and writings.

The scroll emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09026