U+1F583 "🖃" Stamped Envelope Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🖃
U+1F583 "🖃" Stamped Envelope is a historical pictogram representing a sealed letter with a red wax seal, originally part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. It was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 with version 6.0, drawing inspiration from vintage postal imagery, such as pre adhesive stamp envelopes. Today, it is rarely used in modern digital communication, serving more as a nostalgic nod to traditional mail than as a practical symbol for email or messaging, often appearing in contexts discussing typographic history or retro themes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F583 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Stamped Envelope |
| 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 0x96 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD83 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F583 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd83 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |