Envelope Emoji
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What does the Envelope emoji mean?
1
A single white envelope — the classic choice for sending letters and documents through the postal service.
2
A white rectangular envelope shown with its back facing you (no addresses or stamps). It’s perfect for real-world use when you want to send letters and congratulations by mail.
In correspondence and chats, this emoji is commonly used to talk about letters, text messages, and emails. The same icon also appears in apps as a button for sending a message.
Also Known As
- ✉️ ✉ Letter
Apple Name
- ✉️ Envelope
Unicode Name
- ✉️ Envelope
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Envelope emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
✉️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+2709 U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
- works in Github, Slack
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%9C%89%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--4bi |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 9C 89 EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u2709\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u2709\uFE0F |
| CSS | \2709 \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{2709}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{2709}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ✉️ |
| HTML dec | ✉️ |