Open mailbox with raised flag

An open mailbox with a letter inside and the flag up. It means new mail has arrived.

Newsletters use it for a new issue in the inbox: “📬 This week's edition is out.” People also use it to share a mailing address, or to say a reply or package has landed.

Facts

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

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