→ 3012 〒 postal mark
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.
This building has a line and a half a red cross on it. iEmoji old name: Post Office.
| 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 | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Building and Map Symbols |
| 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 |
| 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 Code Version | iOS 4 Code |
|---|---|
| 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) | e153 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E153 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 57683 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x85 0x93 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 85 93 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 205 223 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE153 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e153 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 57683 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E153 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E153 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 57683 |
| Python Src | u"\uE153" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x85\x93" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE153" |
| 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 Encoding | DoCoMo | KDDI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | | | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |||
| Decimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾒳 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾒳 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e665 | e5de | fe4b3 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E665 | U+E5DE | U+FE4B3 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 58981 | 58846 | 1041587 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x99 0xA5 | 0xEE 0x97 0x9E | 0xF3 0xBE 0x92 0xB3 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 99 A5 | EE 97 9E | F3 BE 92 B3 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 231 245 | 356 227 236 | 363 276 222 263 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE665 | 0xE5DE | 0xDBB9 0xDCB3 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e665 | e5de | dbb9dcb3 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 58981 | 58846 | 56249 56499 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E665 | 0x0000E5DE | 0x000FE4B3 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E665 | E5DE | 0FE4B3 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 58981 | 58846 | 1041587 |
| Python Src | u"\uE665" | u"\uE5DE" | u"\U000FE4B3" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x99\xa5" | "\xee\x97\x9e" | "\xf3\xbe\x92\xb3" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE665" | "\uE5DE" | "\uDBB9\uDCB3" |
