Postbox
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- Shortcode
:postbox:- Unicode
U+1F4EE- HTML
📮- CSS
\1F4EE- JavaScript
"\u{1F4EE}"- URL
%F0%9F%93%AE
What ๐ฎ means
A red pillar postbox for dropping off letters, the style seen on streets in the UK, Japan and other places. It stands for sending mail and the postal service.
People use it for posting letters, cards and postcards, and for post office errands. Websites sometimes use it for a contact or feedback form. It fits holiday card season and pen-pal posts.
Facts
Postbox ๐ฎ 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 :postbox:. People also look for it with words like โmailโ or โmailboxโ.
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.