Email emoji meanings: 📧 ✉️ 📨 📩 and the trays 📥 📤
E-Mail is the one to use when you mean email itself: a closed envelope with an @ sign or a letter E on it, depending on the platform. Envelope is the older, plainer character, a paper envelope seen from the back, and it reads as mail in general, a letter, or "contact me". The two are interchangeable in a signature line, but says email and says post.
The two envelopes with arrows mark direction. Incoming Envelope has lines of motion behind it and means a message has arrived, a new email, a DM in your inbox. Envelope with Arrow has an arrow pointing down into the envelope, the standard way to say "send it here", "DM me" or "check your inbox". Inbox Tray and Outbox Tray are the desk trays of an old-fashioned office: means received, saved or "inbox me", means sent, shared or uploaded.
Most of this set, from to , arrived together in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, when the Japanese carrier emoji were standardised. is far older: U2709 has been in Unicode since 1993 as a text dingbat, which is why it shows as a plain black-and-white envelope in many documents unless you add the emoji variation selector.
Mailbox emoji meaning: flag up or down, open or closed
The four mailboxes are a small grid, and the names tell you everything: Closed Mailbox with Raised Flag, Closed Mailbox with Lowered Flag, Open Mailbox with Raised Flag and Open Mailbox with Lowered Flag. The design is the American roadside mailbox. Its little flag is raised by the resident to tell the mail carrier there is outgoing mail inside, and the carrier lowers it after collecting it.
In chat the finer points are usually ignored and the pictures do the work. with letters visible is the "you've got mail" emoji: new message, something waiting for you, DMs open. , open and empty, means no mail, nothing new, an empty inbox or an unanswered message. and stand for the mailbox itself, a postal address or "I'll mail it". Some keyboards draw with an envelope poking out, so check how yours looks before you rely on the empty-or-full reading.
Postbox is the public box on the street where you drop a letter, drawn as a red pillar box on most platforms, the shape used in the UK and Japan. It is the natural emoji for "posted", "sent you a letter" or "in the mail".
Post office, parcel and delivery emoji:
Post Office is the generic European-style building, added in Unicode 7.0 in 2014; the original from 2010 is Japanese Post Office, which carries the Japanese postal mark on its front. Postal Horn is the old coaching horn that mail coaches sounded on arrival; it still appears in the logos of Deutsche Post and other European postal operators, and in messages it means an announcement or "mail is coming".
Package is a taped cardboard box: a parcel, a delivery, an order on its way, an unboxing or a moving day. Pair it with Label for a shipping label and with the vehicles that carry it: Delivery Truck for a courier, Airplane for air mail, Motor Scooter for a local delivery rider. Dove stands in for the carrier pigeon in combos, and Snail is the obvious partner for snail mail, whether you are praising a handwritten letter or complaining about a slow reply.
Email symbol for a resume, Word or Outlook: @ in black and white
Contact lines on a CV, a business card or an email signature usually want a small monochrome icon rather than a bright colour emoji. The plain text characters here do that: (U2709, type 2709 then Alt+X in Word, or Alt+9993 with the numeric keypad) for email, or for a phone number, and for telephone and fax, and @ itself. To force the black-and-white form of the envelope in a place that colours it, paste , which carries the text variation selector UFE0E.
The envelope icons Back of Envelope, Stamped Envelope, Envelope with Lightning, Flying Envelope and Pen over Stamped Envelope come from the old Wingdings font and were added to Unicode in 2014. They have no colour emoji form, so they stay as crisp line icons in Word, Google Docs and PDFs, which makes the best "email symbol for a resume" when looks too heavy. Not every font has them; Segoe UI Symbol on Windows and most system fonts on a Mac do, and if you see an empty box, fall back to .
In Outlook and other Windows apps, Win + . opens the emoji panel where you can search "envelope" or "mail"; on a Mac it is Control + Command + Space. For a plain line that works everywhere, many people write name@example.com and 1 555 0100; add for a city, for a website and for a profile link if you want colour emoji instead.
Letter emoji: writing it, sealing it, special envelopes
For the letter itself, use Memo (a pencil writing on a pad), Writing Hand, the pens and the pages ; Scroll suits an old letter, a certificate or a formal proclamation. Paperclip is the universal attachment icon in email programs, Linked Paperclips is the same idea doubled, and Card Index is the address book or contact list.
Love Letter is an envelope sealed with a heart, the answer to every "mail emoji with heart" search: a love note, a valentine, a message from a secret admirer, and increasingly a friendly newsletter. Red Envelope is the hongbao of Chinese New Year and weddings, filled with lucky money; it is an envelope, but a gift, not a letter. For letters that carry other feelings, the Thank You Emoji and Miss You Emoji collections have the faces and hearts to go with .
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Email and envelopes
The email emoji first, then the envelopes with a direction, a feeling or a gift inside, and the desk trays.
Mailbox emoji, in every state
The American roadside mailbox: flag up means outgoing mail waiting; open means you can see whether anything is inside.
Contact lines for a signature or resume
Colour emoji on the first row; plain text symbols that stay black and white on the second.
How to use them
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- The @ sign became the email symbol in 1971, when Ray Tomlinson chose it to separate a user's name from the computer's name in the first network email, because it was a key that appeared in no one's name.
- The Japanese postal mark shown on the post office emoji has been Japan's postal symbol since 1887. It is a stylised katakana テ (te), the first syllable of Teishin-shō, the Ministry of Communications that ran the mail.
- is the only envelope here that predates emoji: U2709 ENVELOPE entered Unicode in 1993 as a dingbat, so it exists in a text form and an emoji form , while and have only the colour form.
- The five Wingdings envelopes became Unicode characters in 2014, more than twenty years after Microsoft shipped them, so that old documents using the font could be preserved as real text.
- On an American mailbox the raised flag is a message to the mail carrier, not from them: it means there is outgoing mail inside to collect. The emoji keyboard kept all four combinations of flag and door anyway.
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8How do I copy and paste email emoji?
Tap or click any character in the grid above and it is copied; paste it with CtrlV, CmdV or a long press. The colour emoji work on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp, Instagram, Discord, Outlook and Gmail; the text symbols also work in Word, Google Docs and PDFs.
What is the emoji for email?
E-Mail is the dedicated email emoji, an envelope with an @ sign or an E. Envelope is the general mail emoji and is used for email just as often. means an incoming email and means "email me".
What does the mailbox emoji mean?
open mailbox with raised flag means you have mail or a new message; open with lowered flag means the mailbox is empty, no reply yet; and are the closed mailbox, flag up or down, and usually just mean mail or a postal address. The flag comes from US roadside mailboxes, where raising it tells the carrier there is mail to collect.
Is there an email symbol I can use in a resume or CV?
Yes: the text envelope and the Wingdings-style are black-and-white symbols that print cleanly next to your address, and or pair with them for a phone number. Avoid the colour emoji on a formal CV, since it may render as a picture or an empty box in an applicant-tracking system.
How do I insert an email symbol in Word?
Type 2709 and press AltX to get , or hold Alt and type 9993 on the numeric keypad. You can also use Insert › Symbol and pick an envelope from the Wingdings or Segoe UI Symbol font, or simply paste or from this page. Add the character if Word colours the envelope and you want it black and white.
How do I type the email emoji in Outlook?
On Windows press Win . (the Windows key and the period) to open the emoji panel and search "mail" or "envelope"; on a Mac press Control Command Space. Or copy from this page and paste it into the subject line or signature.
Is there a black and white email emoji?
shows in black and white in most text contexts because its default presentation is text; adding the variation selector gives the colour . , , and exist only as monochrome symbols, so they never turn into colour pictures.
What is the mail emoji with a heart?
Love Letter: an envelope sealed with a red heart. It means a love note, a valentine or any message sent with affection, and it is also used for newsletters and friendly announcements.
