The outbox tray is the digital equivalent of sliding a finished memo into the “done and dusted” pile—then catapulting it into the world. It screams send, upload, ship it, especially when you’re finally emailing that overdue file, submitting a paper at 11:59 PM, or pushing a spicy tweet live. In chat, it doubles as the “I’m about to yeet this into the timeline” button, often used with a wink when you threaten to send a risky text or launch a bold take. Pair it with a paper plane, rocket, or inbox tray for maximum productivity-core vibes.
On Apple devices, the emoji shows a glossy blue tray with a chunky white arrow shooting upward from the center. The angle is slightly 3D, the tray has a neat cutout lip, and the arrow looks like it’s confidently escaping the office like it just finished its quarterly review. People clock it instantly as the universal upload/send symbol—part corporate stationery, part launch button. It also carries a tiny bit of millennial-office nostalgia: the literal “outbox” from cubicle land and the email era when Outbox was where your messages sat sweating before they flew.
Use it sincerely when you’ve finally hit Send, or ironically when you say you will (and absolutely won’t). It’s great for “post and ghost,” “ship this PR,” “drop in the chat,” and any moment you go from draft energy to live on the internet.
Definition
A tray (container) used to hold mail or other messages that needed to be sent to other people. An outbox is simply a box used to hold letters on their way out to the recipient. Outbox trays can be physical for post mail (snail mail) or observed digitally through an email software application.
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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)
1679 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
:outbox_tray:
Keywords
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
OUTBOX TRAY
Symbol Information
U+1F4E4 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-533
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[送信BOX]
KDDI
#153 送信ＢＯＸ U+E592 SJIS-F7AF JIS-7831
Softbank
[送信BOX]
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)
1f4e4
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4E4
Decimal Code Point(s)
128228
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0xA4
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 93 A4
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 223 244
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCE4
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddce4
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56548
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4E4
UTF-32 Hex
01F4E4
UTF-32 Dec
128228
Python Src
u"\U0001F4E4"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x93\xa4"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCE4"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
