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📨Incoming Envelope Emoji
Tagged delivering, e-mail and email, 📨 incoming envelope sits in Unicode's Mail group inside Objects. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F4E8.
What 📨 incoming 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 delivering, e-mail and email and files it under Objects → Mail.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F4E8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 📨 | |
| HTML decimal | 📨 | |
| CSS | \1F4E8 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4E8} | |
| Python | \U0001F4E8 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCE8 | |
| Rust | \u{1f4e8} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4E8} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4E8} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%A8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 A8 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCE8 | |
| Base64 | 8J+TqA== | |
| Decimal | 128232 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 📨
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “incoming envelope”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “delivering”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f4e8and 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 📨 incoming envelope emoji mean?+
📨 is the incoming envelope emoji, tagged delivering, e-mail and email. 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 📨?+
incoming envelope is U+1F4E8. In HTML that is 📨, in CSS \1F4E8, and in JavaScript \u{1F4E8}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 📨 emoji added?+
incoming 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)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 📨 incoming envelope.