Envelope with arrow Emoji

Objects

A white envelope with a blue downward-pointing arrow centered on its face. The graphic suggests a letter being deposited into a collection box or a digital message being pushed into an outbox.

Usage Context

This emoji is the standard way to signify that an email or message has been successfully sent. It is frequently used to confirm an action, such as submitting a form, finalizing an order, or signaling that you have just hit the send button on a reply. It is a common companion to the 📧 or 📤 emojis when discussing digital correspondence.

History

Included in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this icon was heavily influenced by early desktop email clients that used visual metaphors to help users distinguish between incoming and outgoing mail queues. The arrow-in-envelope motif became a universal shorthand for 'outbound' status in early web-based communication interfaces.

Details

Glyph

📩

Unicode

U+1F4E9

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f4e9:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDCE9;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Objects

Subcategory mail

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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