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✉️Envelope Emoji
Unicode added ✉️ envelope in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under Objects → Mail. Its codepoint is U+2709 U+FE0F, and it is tagged e-mail, email and letter.
What ✉️ envelope 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 e-mail, email and letter and files it under Objects → Mail.
Copy variants
envelope 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+2709envelope
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+2709 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ✉️ | |
| HTML decimal | ✉️ | |
| CSS | \2709\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{2709}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U00002709\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u2709\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{2709}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{2709}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{2709}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9C%89%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9C 89 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 2709 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4pyJ77iP | |
| Decimal | 9993 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type ✉️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “envelope”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “e-mail”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type2709and 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 ✉️ envelope emoji mean?+
✉️ is the envelope emoji, tagged e-mail, email and letter. 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 ✉️?+
envelope is U+2709 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ✉️, in CSS \2709\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2709}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ✉️ emoji added?+
envelope 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)
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