U+1F4EF "📯" Postal Horn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
📯
U+1F4EF "📯" Postal Horn is a pictographic representation of a long, coiled brass horn historically used by mail carriers to announce their arrival or departure in many cultures. This emoji, included in the "Objects" category as a symbol of communication and news, evokes nostalgia for a time before modern postal systems and digital messaging. It often signifies the delivery of mail, a call to attention, or the arrival of important information, and it appears in various digital platforms and applications to convey themes of travel, correspondence, and tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F4EF |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Postal Horn |
| 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 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDCEF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F4EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udcef |