U+1F3E3 "🏣" Japanese Post Office Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F3E3 "🏣" Japanese Post Office is a pictographic representation of a Japanese post office, typically depicted as a two story building with a distinctive red torii gate style entrance, a tiled roof, and a vertical sign bearing the Japanese character for mail or the postal symbol. Included in the Emoticons Unicode block as part of Emoji 1.0, this symbol is used in digital communication to refer to postal services, sending mail, or specific locations in Japan, and features the 〒 postal mark common on Japanese post offices. It was added to the Unicode Standard to provide an easily recognizable icon for cultural and practical contexts, blending traditional architectural elements with modern digital expression.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F3E3 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Japanese Post Office |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🏣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🏣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDFE3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F3E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udfe3 |