U+1F4EE "📮" Postbox Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
📮
U+1F4EE "📮" Postbox is a pictographic representation of a traditional mailbox, typically depicted as a red or blue rectangular container with a slot for outgoing mail and a raised red flag to signal that letters are inside or waiting to be collected. Included in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010, it is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize sending or receiving messages, postal services, or the general concept of correspondence. Its design often varies across platforms but retains the core features of a drop-off box, making it a universal icon for physical mail in the emoji lexicon.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F4EE |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Postbox |
| 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 0x93 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDCEE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F4EE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udcee |