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📫️Closed Mailbox With Raised Flag Emoji
📫️ is the closed mailbox with raised flag emoji, U+1F4EB U+FE0F, one of 13 in the Mail set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for closed, communication and flag.
What 📫️ closed mailbox with raised flag means
Messages, deliveries and inboxes. ✉️ and 📧 mark contact details in a bio, 📩 was the older way of saying check your DMs, and 📦️ tracks a parcel through the whole shipping saga. The mailboxes with raised and lowered flags encode an American postal convention many users never decode. Unicode also files the ballot box 🗳️ here, which surprises people writing about elections.
Unicode tags this one closed, communication and flag and files it under Objects → Mail.
Copy variants
closed mailbox with raised flag carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 📫️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 📫U+1F4EBclosed mailbox with raised flag
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F4EB U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 📫️ | |
| HTML decimal | 📫️ | |
| CSS | \1F4EB\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4EB}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F4EB\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCEB\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f4eb}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4EB}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4EB}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%AB%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 AB EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCEB FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Tq++4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128235 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 📫️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “closed mailbox with raised flag”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “closed”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f4eband Enter. - HTML — paste
📫️.
How 📫️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 📫️Apple
- 📫️Segoe
- 📫️Noto
- 📫️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 📫️ closed mailbox with raised flag emoji mean?+
📫️ is the closed mailbox with raised flag emoji, tagged closed, communication and flag. Messages, deliveries and inboxes. ✉️ and 📧 mark contact details in a bio, 📩 was the older way of saying check your DMs, and 📦️ tracks a parcel through the whole shipping saga. The mailboxes with raised and lowered flags encode an American postal convention many users never decode. Unicode also files the ballot box 🗳️ here, which surprises people writing about elections.
What is the Unicode code for 📫️?+
closed mailbox with raised flag is U+1F4EB U+FE0F. In HTML that is 📫️, in CSS \1F4EB\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F4EB}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 📫️ emoji added?+
closed mailbox with raised flag got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Mail in Objects.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 📫️ closed mailbox with raised flag.