Meet the e-mail emoji: a sealed envelope stamped with the internet’s favorite swirl, the @ sign. It’s your go-to when you’re saying I’ll shoot you an email, check your inbox, or contact me here without typing a whole paragraph. Brands drop it in bios for press@ links, students use it for I sent the doc, and office folks deploy it with peak per my last email energy. It can signal professionalism, urgency, or that painfully polite nudge when someone ghosts your message thread.
On Apple/iOS, it appears as a crisp white envelope with a pale-gray fold and a bold, sky-blue @ centered on the front. The envelope is slightly angled, with a neat triangular flap and a soft drop shadow that makes it pop like an app icon. No stamps, no handwriting—just clean, modern stationery for the digital age.
Online, it doubles as a wink to old-school internet culture: dial-up nostalgia, newsletters, and reply-all disasters. People use it sarcastically when channeling corporate-speak (please see attached) or to escalate drama politely. It even works flirtatiously—email me like it’s 2003—or as a boundary: don’t DM, send an e-mail. Basically, it’s the office watercooler compressed into a tiny, tidy icon.
Definition
A symbol for electronic mail or email. An envelope with either a letter "E" on it for electronic or the symbol "@".
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1487 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
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Phantom Open Emoji Picture
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ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:e-mail:
Keywords
Previous Names:
E-Mail Symbol
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Communication Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
Communication Symbols
Names & Annotations
E-MAIL SYMBOL * glyph may show an @-sign instead of an E Temporary Notes: Email (Envelope with "E")
