Origami Emoji

Unicode has no emoji named origami: press Copy for the page and swan, or pick a typed fold.

Origami Emoji

📄🦢OrigamiU+1F4C4 U+1F9A2Ready to copy

51 items. Tap one to copy it.

Closest emoji 16

Folds in plain characters 7

Typed origami 8

Origami drawings 2

Origami lines 5

Origami combos 13

Next step More birds, for the next modelNext: scissors and cut-here lines

How it works

Origami is the art of folding paper, by Wikipedia, and the paper crane is considered its most classic design. Unicode has paper and no bird named crane. So the origami emoji here is a pair: Page facing up then Swan.

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Why a page and a swan

CLDR, Unicode’s search word list, files paper under nine emoji, Page facing up, Scissors and Red paper lantern among them. Crane is a search word of one emoji, Building construction: the machine, not the bird. Swan is this page's pick for the long neck.

Creases and fold lines

◩ is a square with one corner folded over, and ⊠ is a square creased both ways. Origami diagrams draw a valley fold as a dashed line and a mountain fold as dashes and dots, by Wikipedia; both are typed here.

  • For emoji origami of another animal, put Page facing up before it: 📄🐸 is the combo Paper frog.

Questions and answers

Is there an origami emoji?

Not by that name. Unicode’s emoji list, version 18.0, has no origami, and no emoji name or search word holds the word. 📄🦢 is the nearest pair.

Is there a paper crane emoticon?

A crane needs more than one line of text, so Paper crane, drawn is ten lines of ASCII. In one line, 折鶴 is orizuru, the folded crane, by Wikipedia.

Is there a fold emoji?

CLDR files nothing under fold. One emoji is under folding, Folding hand fan, 🪭, and Folded hands is the only one under folded. Neither folds paper, so the combo Paper fan puts the page first.

All 51 items

Closest emoji 16

  • Building construction U+1F3D7 U+FE0F. The one emoji filed under crane: the machine, not the bird. Emoji 0.7.
  • Butterfly U+1F98B. Filed under butterfly and insect. Emoji 3.0.
  • Carp streamer U+1F38F. Filed under carp and streamer. Emoji 0.6.
  • Dove U+1F54A U+FE0F. Filed under dove and bird. Emoji 0.7.
  • Folding hand fan U+1FAAD. The only emoji filed under folding. Emoji 15.0.
  • Frog U+1F438. Filed under frog and animal. Emoji 0.6.
  • Kite U+1FA81. Filed under kite and fly. Emoji 12.0.
  • Origami Page facing up, then swan.
  • Page facing up U+1F4C4. One of nine emoji filed under paper. Emoji 0.6.
  • Red paper lantern U+1F3EE. Filed under paper and lantern. Emoji 0.6.
  • Scissors U+2702 U+FE0F. Filed under paper and cut. Emoji 0.6.
  • Scroll U+1F4DC. Filed under paper and scroll. Emoji 0.6.
  • Star U+2B50. Filed under star and stars. Emoji 0.6.
  • Swan U+1F9A2. Filed under swan and bird. This page's pick for the crane. Emoji 11.0.
  • Tulip U+1F337. Filed under tulip and flower. Emoji 0.6.
  • White large square U+2B1C. Filed under white and square. Emoji 0.6.
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Folds in plain characters 7

  • Black lower right triangle U+25E2. Half of a folded square.
  • Crane, as a Han character U+9DB4. Crane, the bird, by the Unihan database.
  • Paper, as a Han character U+7D19. Paper, by the Unihan database.
  • Square with upper left diagonal half black U+25E9. A square sheet with one corner folded over.
  • Squared plus U+229E. A square creased into quarters.
  • Squared times U+22A0. A square creased corner to corner, both ways.
  • White diamond U+25C7. A sheet turned on its point.

Typed origami 8

  • - - - - - - - A valley fold, as origami diagrams draw it: a dashed line.
  • - · - · - · - A mountain fold: dashes and dots.
  • /\/\/\/\/\ A fan fold, seen edge on.
  • □ → ◪ → ◢ A square, a corner folded over, a triangle.
  • ◢◣ A paper hat: two triangles.
  • 千羽鶴 Senbazuru: one thousand cranes, by Wikipedia.
  • 折り紙 Origami in Japanese: ori, folding, and kami, paper, by Wikipedia.
  • 折鶴 Orizuru, the folded crane, by Wikipedia.

Origami drawings 2

  • Paper crane, drawn Ten lines: a beak, a neck, a wing, a tail and the folded body. Needs monospaced text.
  • Paper hat, drawn Five lines: a peak and a turned-up brim.

Origami lines 5

  • crane 1 of 1,000 folded. 999 to go For the start of a long project.
  • crease, fold, turn over, repeat For a work in progress.
  • folded it flat, then it stood up For a first model.
  • it was a homework sheet. now it is a frog For a desk photo.
  • one square of paper. no scissors, no glue For a finished model.

Origami combos 13

  • A flock of paper cranes Page facing up, then swan, three times.
  • Careful crease Pinching hand, then white large square.
  • Folding club Page facing up, then swan, then frog, then butterfly.
  • From sheet to crane Page facing up, then right arrow, then swan.
  • No scissors Scissors, then prohibited.
  • Paper butterfly Page facing up, then butterfly.
  • Paper fan Page facing up, then folding hand fan.
  • Paper fox Page facing up, then fox.
  • Paper frog Page facing up, then frog.
  • Paper heart Page facing up, then red heart.
  • Paper star Page facing up, then star.
  • Paper tulip Page facing up, then tulip.
  • Square to swan White large square, then right arrow, then swan.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Unicode has no emoji named origami: no emoji name, no CLDR search word and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), holds origami, orizuru or paper crane. CLDR files crane under one emoji, Building construction, and no emoji has crane in its name; it files paper under nine emoji (Red paper lantern, Page with curl, Scroll, Page facing up, Newspaper, Rolled-up newspaper, Scissors, File cabinet, Roll of paper) and folding under Folding hand fan alone. The meanings of the two Han characters are the kDefinition lines of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). That origami is the art of folding paper, that the word is from ori (folding) and kami (paper), written 折り紙, that it starts from a flat square sheet and that cuts and glue are discouraged, is from Wikipedia, Origami (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami, CC BY-SA 4.0); that the orizuru (折鶴), the paper crane, is considered the most classic of all Japanese origami, from Wikipedia, Orizuru (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orizuru); that 千羽鶴 (senbazuru) is one thousand cranes, from Wikipedia, One thousand origami cranes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_thousand_origami_cranes); that diagrams draw a valley fold as a dashed line and a mountain fold as a dashed and dotted line, from Wikipedia, Yoshizawa–Randlett system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshizawa–Randlett_system). The typed lines, the drawings, the caption lines and the combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data and Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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