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🏤Post Office Emoji
🏤 post office is encoded at U+1F3E4 and shipped with Emoji 1.0 (2015). Unicode files it under Travel & Places → Buildings, alongside 26 related emojis.
What 🏤 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, european 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+1F3E4 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🏤 | |
| HTML decimal | 🏤 | |
| CSS | \1F3E4 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3E4} | |
| Python | \U0001F3E4 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFE4 | |
| Rust | \u{1f3e4} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3E4} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3E4} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8F%A4 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F A4 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFE4 | |
| Base64 | 8J+PpA== | |
| Decimal | 127972 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🏤
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “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 type1f3e4and 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 🏤 post office emoji mean?+
🏤 is the post office emoji, tagged building, european 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 🏤?+
post office is U+1F3E4. In HTML that is 🏤, in CSS \1F3E4, and in JavaScript \u{1F3E4}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🏤 emoji added?+
post office got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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 Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🏤 post office.