Objects · Emoji 0.7
📭Open Mailbox with Lowered Flag Emoji
Usually, it just means "waiting" or “I’m expecting something.” People often use it when they’re hoping for a reply or a delivery.
The 📭 emoji is an open mailbox with a lowered flag.
- Unicode
- U+1F4ED
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :mailbox_
with_ no_ mail: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📭 Open Mailbox with Lowered Flag emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
02 — Platforms
Open Mailbox with Lowered Flag emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F4ED. 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
Open Mailbox with Lowered Flag emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :mailbox_with_no_mail:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F4ED.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📭 Open Mailbox with Lowered Flag emoji
No picker to hand? The open mailbox with lowered flag can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Open Mailbox with Lowered Flag emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the open mailbox with lowered 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
Open Mailbox with Lowered Flag emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around open 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
One code point, several readings — where the open mailbox with lowered flag lands changes how it is taken.
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 Lowered Flag
Code: U+1F4ED · added 2014
Shortcode: :mailbox_with_no_mail:
Usually, it just means "waiting" or “I’m expecting something.”
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 Lowered Flag emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F4ED 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 Lowered Flag was approved as U+1F4ED 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