Closed mailbox with lowered flag

A closed mailbox with the flag down. It means no new mail, nothing waiting, or a quiet inbox.

Rare in chat. People use it to say there are no messages or replies yet, or that the mail has already been collected. It forms a set with 📫, 📬 and 📭, which show the other mailbox states.

Facts

Closed mailbox with lowered flag 📪 is an emoji in the objects category, under mail. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :mailbox_closed: or :closed_mailbox_with_lowered_flag:. People also look for it with words like “closed”, “flag”, “lowered”, or “mail”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

objects · Unicode 6.0