This emoji is the little building stamped with the bold red 〒 mark—the instantly recognizable symbol of Japan’s postal system. It screams “yuubin time,” covering everything from mailing packages and postcards to doing ATM errands at Japan Post. People drop it in texts when they’re shipping K‑pop photocards, sending pen-pal letters, or announcing a dreaded bureaucracy run like change-of-address forms and international shipping forms. It also gets used ironically: “I’ll post it tomorrow” (cue three-week delay), or as a cheeky stand-in for “a new post is coming,” blending real mail with social media posting culture.
On Apple/iOS, it looks like a neat, light‑gray facade with clean windows and a bright red 〒 sign above the entrance—front-facing, squared-off, and very tidy, like it passed a KonMari audit. The red 〒 is the star; that’s the visual you clock instantly in your feed. Don’t confuse it with the European-style post office emoji 🏤 or the convenience store 🏪. In real life, look for that same 〒 on signs and the iconic orange-red mailboxes across Japan—practical, photogenic, and totally postcard-core.
Definition
This building has a line and a half a red cross on it. iEmoji old name: Post Office.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1922 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
:post_office:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Japanese post office Japanese Post Office
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Building and Map Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
Building and Map Symbols
Names & Annotations
JAPANESE POST OFFICE x (postal mark - 3012) Temporary Notes: * U+3012 POSTAL MARK = ARIB-9108
Symbol Information
U+1F3E3 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-4B3
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#40 'Post office' 郵便局 U+E665 SJIS-F8C6 JIS-7932
KDDI
#375 郵便局 U+E5DE SJIS-F351 JIS-7932
Softbank
#325 #old173 郵便局 U+E153 SJIS-F794
Emoji Character Encoding Data
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)
1f3e3
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F3E3
Decimal Code Point(s)
127971
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xA3
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8F A3
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 217 243
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDFE3
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdfe3
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57315
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F3E3
UTF-32 Hex
01F3E3
UTF-32 Dec
127971
Python Src
u"\U0001F3E3"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8f\xa3"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDFE3"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
