Objects · Emoji 0.6
📥Inbox Tray Emoji
Generally, it means you’ve received something, like a message or an email. It’s a quick way to say "got it!"
The 📥 emoji is a tray with an arrow pointing downwards.
- Unicode
- U+1F4E5
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :inbox_
tray: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📥 Inbox Tray emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 8 of them.
02 — Platforms
Inbox Tray emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the inbox tray has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Inbox Tray emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :inbox_tray:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4E5.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📥 Inbox Tray emoji
No picker to hand? The inbox tray can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Inbox Tray emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Inbox Tray emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around inbox 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
Who sent the inbox tray and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 📥 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F4E5, 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: Inbox Tray
Code: U+1F4E5 · added 2010
Shortcode: :inbox_tray:
Generally, it means you’ve received something, like a message or an email.
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.
11 — History
Where the 📥 Inbox 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+1F4E5 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 E593.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Inbox Tray was approved as U+1F4E5 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