Incoming envelope
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- Shortcode
:incoming_envelope:- Unicode
U+1F4E8- HTML
📨- CSS
\1F4E8- JavaScript
"\u{1F4E8}"- URL
%F0%9F%93%A8
What ๐จ means
An envelope with motion lines, flying in. It means a message on its way or just arrived.
People use it for โyou've got mail,โ a new email or DM, and to say they have sent something: โ๐จ check your inbox.โ It adds a sense of movement that โ๏ธ does not have.
Facts
Incoming envelope ๐จ 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 :incoming_envelope:. People also look for it with words like โdeliveringโ, โe-mailโ, โemailโ, or โenvelopeโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.