Objects · Emoji 0.6
📨Incoming Envelope Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you 📨, they’re letting you know they’ve sent you something—usually a message or email. It's a quick way to confirm receipt.
The 📨 emoji represents an incoming envelope, just like physical mail.
- Unicode
- U+1F4E8
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :incoming_
envelope: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📨 Incoming Envelope emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 9.
02 — Platforms
Incoming Envelope emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the incoming envelope 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
Incoming Envelope emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :incoming_envelope:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4E8.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📨 Incoming Envelope emoji
No picker to hand? The incoming envelope can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Incoming Envelope emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the incoming envelope 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
Incoming Envelope emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around incoming envelope 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
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
📨 vs ✉️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Incoming Envelope
Code: U+1F4E8 · added 2010
Shortcode: :incoming_envelope:
Generally, when someone sends you 📨, they’re letting you know they’ve sent you something—usually a message or email.
Unicode name: Envelope
Code: U+2709 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :email:
Generally, when someone sends you the ✉️ emoji in a text, they're signaling that they’ve sent you something – usually an email or a physical letter.
11 — History
Where the 📨 Incoming Envelope 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+1F4E8 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 E6CF, KDDI au E591.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Incoming Envelope was approved as U+1F4E8 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