Objects · Emoji 0.6
📤Outbox Tray Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 📤 emoji, they’re just letting you know they’ve sent you something. It’s a quick way to confirm a message or file has been delivered.
The 📤 emoji, often called the “Outbox Tray,” shows a tray with an arrow pointing upwards.
- Unicode
- U+1F4E4
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :outbox_
tray: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📤 Outbox Tray emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Outbox Tray emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F4E4. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Outbox Tray emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :outbox_tray:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4E4.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📤 Outbox Tray emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F4E4 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Outbox Tray emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the outbox tray 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
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Outbox Tray emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around outbox tray 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What 📤 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F4E4, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
📤 vs 📥 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Outbox Tray
Code: U+1F4E4 · added 2010
Shortcode: :outbox_tray:
Generally, when someone sends you the 📤 emoji, they’re just letting you know they’ve sent you something.
Unicode name: Inbox Tray
Code: U+1F4E5 · added 2010
Shortcode: :inbox_tray:
Generally, it means you’ve received something, like a message or an email.
11 — History
Where the 📤 Outbox Tray 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+1F4E4 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
KDDI au E592.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Outbox Tray was approved as U+1F4E4 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