School Symbol

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). School is U+1F3EB, Emoji 0.6, in the group Travel & Places, subgroup place-building, between Convenience store and Department store. CLDR files seven emoji under school (School, Bus, Backpack, Videocassette, Notebook with decorative cover, Books, Card index); Videocassette and Card index also carry the word old. Teacher is U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F3EB and Student is U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F393 in the same file. Character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt): three names hold the word school (Circled ideograph school, School satchel, School). Unicode's notes (School satchel: Japanese school entrance ceremony; White flower: brilliant homework; Hundred points: perfect score; Graduation cap: mortarboard, education; Artist palette: art) are from NamesList.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); U+3246 dates from Unicode 5.2 and U+270F from 1.1 by DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt); U+270F has a text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. The four Han characters are defined as in the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). That Japanese maps mark an elementary or junior high school with 文 and a high school with the same character in a circle is from Wikipedia, List of Japanese map symbols (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_map_symbols). Code page 437, which the old Alt codes follow, has no school (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437). That some apps take decimal Alt numbers from 256 to 65,535 is from Wikipedia, Alt code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code), and that Alt+X turns the hexadecimal number before the cursor into its character from Wikipedia, Unicode input (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input). The Greek origin of the word school, the sayings, snow day, school night and field trip are as Wiktionary gives them (CC BY-SA 4.0): school (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/school), old school (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/old_school), school of thought (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/school_of_thought), too cool for school (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/too_cool_for_school), school run (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/school_run), teacher's pet (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/teacher's_pet), class clown (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/class_clown), show and tell (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/show_and_tell), pop quiz (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pop_quiz), roll call (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roll_call), alma mater (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alma_mater), snow day (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snow_day), school night (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/school_night), field trip (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/field_trip). The five typed items, the two drawings, the eight lines and the ten 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, with definitions from the Unihan database, 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.