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📮Postbox Emoji
📮 postbox is encoded at U+1F4EE and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Objects → Mail, alongside 12 related emojis.
What 📮 postbox 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 mail, mailbox 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+1F4EE | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 📮 | |
| HTML decimal | 📮 | |
| CSS | \1F4EE | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4EE} | |
| Python | \U0001F4EE | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDCEE | |
| Rust | \u{1f4ee} | |
| Swift | \u{1F4EE} | |
| PHP | \u{1F4EE} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%AE | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 AE | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DCEE | |
| Base64 | 8J+Trg== | |
| Decimal | 128238 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 📮
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “postbox”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “mail”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f4eeand 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 📮 postbox emoji mean?+
📮 is the postbox emoji, tagged mail, mailbox. 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 📮?+
postbox is U+1F4EE. In HTML that is 📮, in CSS \1F4EE, and in JavaScript \u{1F4EE}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 📮 emoji added?+
postbox 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 📮 postbox.