Open mailbox with lowered flag

An open, empty mailbox with the flag down. It means no mail: an empty inbox, no replies, nobody wrote back.

People use it for inbox zero, for waiting on a reply that never comes, and for feeling ghosted. It has a gently sad or lonely tone, often with 🥲 or 😶.

Facts

Open 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 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :mailbox_with_no_mail: or :open_mailbox_with_lowered_flag:. People also look for it with words like “flag”, “lowered”, “mail”, or “mailbox”.

Timeline

1. 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)

Design history

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

objects · Unicode 7.0