Objects · Emoji 0.6
📫Closed Mailbox with Raised Flag Emoji
Basically, it means “mail” or “shipping.” People use it when they’re discussing receiving or sending a package or letter.
The 📫 emoji represents a closed mailbox with a raised flag.
- Unicode
- U+1F4EB
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :mailbox:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📫 Closed Mailbox with Raised Flag emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Closed Mailbox with Raised Flag emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F4EB — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your closed mailbox with raised flag looks like to the person on the other side.
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 Raised 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:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4EB.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📫 Closed Mailbox with Raised Flag emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Closed Mailbox with Raised Flag emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the closed mailbox with raised flag 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
Closed Mailbox with Raised Flag emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around closed mailbox with raised 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
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+1F4EB, 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 Raised Flag
Code: U+1F4EB · added 2010
Shortcode: :mailbox:
Basically, it means “mail” or “shipping.”
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.”
11 — History
Where the 📫 Closed Mailbox with Raised 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+1F4EB 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 EB0A, SoftBank E101.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Closed Mailbox with Raised Flag was approved as U+1F4EB 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