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🏣Japanese Post Office Emoji
🏣 Japanese post office — U+1F3E3, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 27 buildings emojis under Travel & Places.
What 🏣 Japanese post office means
Buildings mark a place in a story: 🏠 for home, 🏥 for a hospital visit, 🏫 for school runs, 🏦 for money talk. The set is visibly inherited from Japanese carrier emoji — Unicode carries both 🏣 Japanese post office and 🏤 post office as separate characters, and 🏩 love hotel exists because the source sets had one.
Unicode tags this one building, japanese and office and files it under Travel & Places → Buildings.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3E3 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🏣 | |
| HTML decimal | 🏣 | |
| CSS | \1F3E3 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3E3} | |
| Python | \U0001F3E3 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFE3 | |
| Rust | \u{1f3e3} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3E3} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3E3} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8F%A3 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F A3 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFE3 | |
| Base64 | 8J+Pow== | |
| Decimal | 127971 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🏣
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “Japanese post office”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “building”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3e3and 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 🏣 Japanese post office emoji mean?+
🏣 is the Japanese post office emoji, tagged building, japanese and office. Buildings mark a place in a story: 🏠 for home, 🏥 for a hospital visit, 🏫 for school runs, 🏦 for money talk. The set is visibly inherited from Japanese carrier emoji — Unicode carries both 🏣 Japanese post office and 🏤 post office as separate characters, and 🏩 love hotel exists because the source sets had one.
What is the Unicode code for 🏣?+
Japanese post office is U+1F3E3. In HTML that is 🏣, in CSS \1F3E3, and in JavaScript \u{1F3E3}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🏣 emoji added?+
Japanese post office 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 Buildings in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🏣 Japanese post office.