postbox

Group: Objects · Subgroup: Mail · Emoji 0.6

Keywords

mail
mailbox
postbox

About this character

postbox belongs to the Objects group and is encoded at U+1F4EE. It was added in Unicode 0.6.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F4EE
Hex: 1F4EE
Decimal: 128238
HTML: 📮
CSS: \1F4EE
JavaScript: \u{1F4EE}
Python: \U0001F4EE
UTF-8: F0 9F 93 AE

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

envelope U+2709
e-mail U+1F4E7
incoming envelope U+1F4E8
envelope with arrow U+1F4E9
outbox tray U+1F4E4
inbox tray U+1F4E5
package U+1F4E6
closed mailbox with raised flag U+1F4EB
closed mailbox with lowered flag U+1F4EA
open mailbox with raised flag U+1F4EC
open mailbox with lowered flag U+1F4ED
ballot box with ballot U+1F5F3

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.