📮 Postbox emoji

📮 meaning - Postbox

The postbox emoji is similar in meaning – and sometimes appearance – to the mailbox emojis, though they have greater global recognition value. They are used to deposit letters and parcels for the postal workers to collect and deliver. As an emoji, they can signify that something has just been sent or to request that something is sent. Most versions show a red box with an opening for letters to be slid through. Apart from EmojiOne and Emojidex platforms, the emoji depicts a letter being deposited into the box. The Emojidex version is the most unique and shows an orangey-brown wall-mounted box which is identical to the one used in the mailbox emojis.

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Representations : Postbox can be represented by 📮 emoji.

How Postbox emoji appear on Apple, Google and other platforms?

Postbox may look different on every device. In the above images you can view how Postbox emoji appears on different devices. Emoji of Postbox can be used on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and many other platforms and OS. Some devices may show a blank box or X instead of Postbox emoji as every device doesn't support each one of the emoji.

History of Postbox emoji

This emoji was first introduced in Unicode 6.0 in October, 2010 which was followed by addition to Emoji 1.0 in August, 2015. Postbox emoji appeared on iOS 5.0, Android 4.3, EmojiOne 1.0 for the first time.

Postbox in other languages

LanguageShort Name
SpanishBuzón
GermanBriefkasten
FrenchBoîte aux lettres
RussianПочтовый ящик
ItalianCasella postale
PortugueseCaixa postal

What is the code of Postbox emoji?

Unicode : U+1F4EE
Hex Code
Code Point(s):    1f4ee
HTML Entity:   📮
UTF-8: F0 9F 93 AE
UTF-8 (C): F0 9F 93 AE
UTF-16: 0xd83ddcee
UTF-16 (C): 0xD83D 0xDCEE
UTF-32: 1F4EE
UTF-32 (C): 0x00001F4EE
Decimal Code
Code Point(s): 128238
HTML Entity: 📮
UTF-16: 55357 56558
UTF-32: 128238
Octal Code
UTF-8: 360 237 223 256
Other developer codes:
PHP: "\xf0\x9f\x93\xae"
Python: u"\U0001F4EE"
Java, C++, C: "0xD83D\uDCEE"

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