Envelope
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- Shortcode
:envelope:- Unicode
U+2709- HTML
✉- CSS
\2709- JavaScript
"\u{2709}"- URL
%E2%9C%89%EF%B8%8F
What ✉️ means
A closed paper envelope. It stands for a letter, mail, or a message of any kind.
People use it next to contact details, in “DM me ✉️” posts, and for newsletters and invitations. It reads a bit more classic and paper-like than 📧, which points to email.
For a love letter, people use 💌 instead.
Facts
Envelope ✉️ 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 :envelope:. People also look for it with words like “e-mail”, “email”, or “letter”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.