Incoming envelope emoji 📨
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F4E8
What 📨 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Incoming envelope 📨 is tagged with these keywords: delivering, e-mail, email, envelope, incoming, letter, mail, receive, sent.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing delivering or e-mail in the emoji search brings up 📨.
Incoming envelope 📨 is one of 13 emoji in the mail subgroup of objects (268 emoji), next to 📩 📤 📥 📦.
Will 📨 show on my friend's phone?
📨 is one of the original emoji: it comes from the Japanese phone sets and is listed in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Every phone, computer and app shows it.
How to type 📨
Any emoji picker finds 📨 when you search for incoming envelope.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type incoming envelope.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type incoming envelope in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type incoming envelope.
Codes for developers
Incoming envelope 📨 is a single code point, U+1F4E8. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F4E8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 📨 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 📨 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F4E8"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4E8} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%93%A8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 93 A8 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 📨 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | incoming envelope |
| Português | envelope chegando |
| Español | sobre entrante |
| Italiano | posta in arrivo |
| Français | message reçu |
| Deutsch | eingehender Briefumschlag |
| Türkçe | gelen zarf |
| Bahasa Indonesia | amplop datang |
| Polski | koperta przychodząca |
| Русский | входящее письмо |
| 日本語 | メール受信中 |
| 한국어 | 받은 편지 |
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All objects emoji →Questions people ask
What does the incoming envelope emoji mean?
Unicode calls 📨 "incoming envelope" and links it with delivering, e-mail, email, envelope. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mail subgroup of objects.
When was the incoming envelope emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the incoming envelope emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 📨 when you search for incoming envelope.