The incoming envelope emoji is the digital equivalent of hearing “ding! you’ve got mail” in your brain. It screams, “Check your inbox!”—whether that’s email, DMs, or a flood of unread newsletters you promised you’d read on Sunday. People drop it when receipts are arriving, gossip is en route, or a file is swooping into your life like a well-trained carrier pigeon with Wi‑Fi. It can be flirty (check your inbox 😉), dramatic (incoming tea), or slightly menacing (brace for bills).
On Apple/iOS, it’s a crisp white envelope with neat gray folds and a bold red arrow pointing straight down onto it—clean, front-facing, and instantly recognizable like a big red “new message” stamp. It often pairs with phrases like “link incoming,” “DM sent,” or “peep your email,” and shows up in captions for drops: merch, newsletters, invites, acceptance letters, or spoilers. Used ironically, it warns of spam storms or “adulting” mail (hi, taxes). In short: a tiny postcard that shouts, something’s landing in your inbox right now.
Definition
An envelop on its way in (incoming). Envelops are used to protect and seal letters and message on their way to the recipient.
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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)
1546 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
:incoming_envelope:
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
INCOMING ENVELOPE x (envelope - 2709) Temporary Notes: Mail (with cartoon movement marks). Might be allocated in the U+27xx Dingbats block with U+2709 ENVELOPE.
Symbol Information
U+1F4E8 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-52A
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#106 'mail to' mail to U+E6CF SJIS-F973 JIS-7B47
KDDI
#151 封筒２ U+E591 SJIS-F7AE JIS-7830
Softbank
#242 #old93 Mail to U+E103 SJIS-F743
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)
1f4e8
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4E8
Decimal Code Point(s)
128232
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0xA8
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 93 A8
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 223 250
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCE8
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddce8
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56552
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4E8
UTF-32 Hex
01F4E8
UTF-32 Dec
128232
Python Src
u"\U0001F4E8"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x93\xa8"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCE8"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
