Closed mailbox with raised flag

A closed mailbox with its flag up, the US-style sign that mail is waiting. It means there is mail or a message to deal with.

People use it for “you've got mail,” for contact info, and for newsletters. Since a raised flag can also tell the carrier there is outgoing mail, some use it for letters ready to send.

Facts

Closed mailbox with raised 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: or :closed_mailbox_with_raised_flag:. People also look for it with words like “closed”, “communication”, “flag”, 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