Objects · Emoji 0.7
📬Open Mailbox with Raised Flag Emoji
Generally, it means you’ve received mail or that something is being delivered to you. It’s a simple way to say “I got it!”
The 📬 emoji shows an open mailbox with a flag raised.
- Unicode
- U+1F4EC
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :mailbox_
with_ mail: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📬 Open 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
Open Mailbox with Raised Flag emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the open mailbox with raised flag as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Open Mailbox with Raised Flag emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :mailbox_with_mail:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4EC.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📬 Open 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
Open Mailbox with Raised 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
Open Mailbox with Raised Flag emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around open 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
Who sent the open mailbox with raised flag 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+1F4EC, 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: Open Mailbox with Raised Flag
Code: U+1F4EC · added 2014
Shortcode: :mailbox_with_mail:
Generally, it means you’ve received mail or that something is being delivered to you.
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 📬 Open Mailbox with Raised Flag emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the open mailbox with raised flag to 2014.
Same character every time — U+1F4EC 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.
Open Mailbox with Raised Flag was approved as U+1F4EC and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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