The post office emoji is basically snail mail HQ: a sturdy little building that screams stamps, queues, and that one pen on a chain. People use it when they’re shipping a package, asking for an address, flexing their stationery game, or joking about tracking-number anxiety. It also works as a pun for “I’ll post it” (online), or when you’re “delivering receipts” in a spicy comment thread. Holiday season? This emoji becomes the final boss of errand-running, radiating return-to-sender energy and cookie-exchange chaos.
On Apple/iOS, the design shows a clean, front-facing building with neat rectangular windows and a prominent sign up top—often featuring the word “POST” or a postal symbol—rendered in muted, classic tones that feel official without being gloomy. The look is symmetrical, orderly, and very “please take a number,” instantly recognizable as a government-ish service spot where forms go to live their best bureaucratic lives. It pairs perfectly with envelope, package, and mailbox emojis when you’re narrating a shipping saga. Pro tip: it’s different from the Japanese post office emoji (the one with the 〒 mark), which is its red-roofed cousin. Meme-wise, you’ll see it when folks announce pen-pal revivals, cottagecore letter-writing, or when someone says they’ll “ship it IRL” instead of just in fandom.
A post office building marked with a postal horn. A post horn is a symbol used to identify the European (EU) Postal Service. In history, a postal horn (post horn), a circular brass horn, would be blown to notify people of a quickly approaching or departing coach or post rider. The postal horn has its own emoji, U+1F4EF.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1959 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :european_post_office: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | European Post Office |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Building and Map Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🏤 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🏤 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🏤 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🏤 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f3e4 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F3E4 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127972 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xA4 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8F A4 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 217 244 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDFE4 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdfe4 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57316 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F3E4 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F3E4 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127972 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F3E4" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8f\xa4" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDFE4" |
