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✉️ is the all-purpose mail icon: it stands for a paper letter, an email, or a direct message without specifying how it travels. People put it beside contact addresses in bios and signatures or send it as a quick "check your messages" nudge, whereas specifically means email. Because it started as a plain text symbol, losing its invisible emoji marker turns it into a small black ✉.

EmojiSince 2010

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What ✉️ means

Any kind of mail or message — paper letter, email, or DM.

showing the back of a sealed white envelope with a triangular flap, ✉️ is the cleanest way to point to correspondence. On social profiles, business cards, and email signatures, it sits right before an email address or handle as a universal "contact me" label. In everyday chat, it announces that something has been sent or received: a wedding invitation in the post, a personal note, a newsletter, or a private message waiting to be read.

Unlike the other mail emojis, ✉️ has no arrows, motion lines, or symbols stamped on it. That plainness gives it a slightly warmer, paper-stationery feel than (which has an @ or "E" on the front for electronic mail), while still working cleanly as a professional contact icon.

Clean, practical, and polite; works equally well in a formal email signature or a personal note.

It does not mean email alone; use when you want to point specifically to an email inbox.

Part of collections

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

Reach me here for business, bookings, or messages.

Don't confuse it with

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Combination ideas

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a love letter or affectionate message
check your mail, something arrived
writing a letter by hand
posting a letter
Special news, an invitation, or happy mail on its way.

Worth knowing

  • The characters behind ✉️ existed in Unicode 8 years before anyone was allowed to draw them in colour: Unicode 3.2 in 2002, emoji presentation in 2010.
  • ✉️ is not one character. It is 2 of them glued together, which is why deleting it sometimes takes two presses of backspace and why it breaks character counters.

Questions people ask

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Why does my envelope show up as a small black-and-white symbol?

It lost its invisible emoji selector. Because the envelope started as a plain text dingbat years before color emoji existed, stripping that hidden marker makes apps draw a flat monochrome ✉; re-selecting it from your emoji keyboard restores the color picture.

Should I use ✉️ or for an email address in a signature?

Either works, and ✉️ is often preferred. Because ✉️ is clean and unmarked, it looks tidier beside an address that already contains an @ sign, whereas repeats the symbol.

Collections with ✉️

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How to type or find ✉️

Also called
mail emoji · letter emoji · email icon
Search it as
mail icon · email · letter · e-mail · send mail · contact · message · inbox
Type it as
:email:
Around since
2010 · Emoji 0.6
Shows up on
Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux
Windows
⊞Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “envelope”.
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard search “envelope”.
Chat apps
:email:Common shortcode in Slack, GitHub, Discord, Mattermost and other chat apps; a few apps use a different name.
HTML
✉️
Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
✉️
HTML hex
✉️
CSS content
content: "\2709\FE0F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9C%89%EF%B8%8F
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On screen
2
Code points
2
JS .length
6
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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