Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
🏣Japanese Post Office Emoji
Generally, the 🏣 emoji means a Japanese post office. People use it when discussing mail, packages, or the postal service.
The 🏣 emoji represents a Japanese post office building.
- Unicode
- U+1F3E3
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :post_
office: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🏣 Japanese Post Office emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
People also look for it as post emoji.
02 — Platforms
Japanese Post Office emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the japanese post office has been drawn in 5 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Japanese Post Office emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :post_office:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F3E3.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🏣 Japanese Post Office emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Japanese Post Office emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the japanese post office as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Japanese Post Office emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around japanese post office for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🏣 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 🏣 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the japanese post office lands changes how it is taken.
10 — Difference
🏣 vs 🏯 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Japanese Post Office
Code: U+1F3E3 · added 2010
Shortcode: :post_office:
Generally, the 🏣 emoji means a Japanese post office.
Unicode name: Japanese Castle
Code: U+1F3EF · added 2010
Shortcode: :japanese_castle:
Usually, it just means “Japanese castle.”
11 — History
Where the 🏣 Japanese Post Office emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3E3 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🏣 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E665, KDDI au E5DE, SoftBank E153.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Japanese Post Office was approved as U+1F3E3 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🏣 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ