Open mailbox with lowered flag Emoji

Objects

A metal mailbox painted blue, depicted with its front door swung open and a red flag lowered into a horizontal position.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to signal that you have checked your physical or digital messages and found nothing new, or to indicate that a mailbox is ready to be emptied. It is the direct opposite of the 📬 emoji, which features a raised flag to signify that mail has been delivered.

History

Included in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this icon draws its design from traditional roadside mailboxes common in North America. The lowered flag specifically tells a mail carrier that there is no outgoing mail inside to be collected, a visual cue used in rural postal systems for decades.

Details

Glyph

📭

Unicode

U+1F4ED

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f4ed:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDCED;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Objects

Subcategory mail

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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