Objects · Emoji 0.6
📪Closed Mailbox with Lowered Flag Emoji
Usually, it just means “no mail” or “nothing is happening.” People often use it to indicate a lack of updates or communication.
The 📪 emoji is a lowered flag coming out of a closed mailbox.
- Unicode
- U+1F4EA
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :mailbox_
closed: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📪 Closed Mailbox with Lowered Flag emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
02 — Platforms
Closed Mailbox with Lowered Flag emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F4EA. 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
Closed Mailbox with Lowered Flag 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 :mailbox_closed:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the closed mailbox with lowered flag, code point U+1F4EA.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📪 Closed Mailbox with Lowered Flag emoji
No picker to hand? The closed mailbox with lowered flag can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Closed Mailbox with Lowered Flag 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
Closed Mailbox with Lowered Flag emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around closed mailbox with lowered flag 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
Chat apps do not change U+1F4EA, 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: Closed Mailbox with Lowered Flag
Code: U+1F4EA · added 2010
Shortcode: :mailbox_closed:
Usually, it just means “no mail” or “nothing is happening.”
Unicode name: Closed Mailbox with Raised Flag
Code: U+1F4EB · added 2010
Shortcode: :mailbox:
Basically, it means “mail” or “shipping.”
11 — History
Where the 📪 Closed Mailbox with Lowered Flag 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+1F4EA 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 E51B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Closed Mailbox with Lowered Flag was approved as U+1F4EA 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