Objects · Emoji 0.6
📩Envelope with Arrow Emoji
Generally, 📩 means someone has sent you a message or email. It’s a quick way to say “I got it!”
The 📩 emoji is an envelope with an arrow pointing downwards.
- Unicode
- U+1F4E9
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :envelope_
with_ arrow: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📩 Envelope with Arrow emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Envelope with Arrow emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F4E9. 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
Envelope with Arrow 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 :envelope_with_arrow:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4E9.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📩 Envelope with Arrow emoji
No picker to hand? The envelope with arrow can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Envelope with Arrow 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
Envelope with Arrow emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around envelope with arrow 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
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: Envelope with Arrow
Code: U+1F4E9 · added 2010
Shortcode: :envelope_with_arrow:
Generally, 📩 means someone has sent you 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 📩 Envelope with Arrow 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+1F4E9 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 EB62, SoftBank E103.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Envelope with Arrow was approved as U+1F4E9 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