Behold the postal horn: the OG notification system before push alerts were a thing. This curly brass beauty once signaled a mail coach rolling into town—basically the 1800s equivalent of “You’ve got mail.” It still shows up on European postal logos and yellow mailboxes, and lit-nerds will clock its cameo as the muted horn in Pynchon lore. Today, it brings vintage vibes to any message about deliveries, announcements, or a dramatic entrance.
Online, people blast this emoji when they’re making a big reveal, dropping a link, or summoning the group chat for tea. It pairs perfectly with envelope emojis to scream “mail time,” or gets used ironically to hype something hilariously minor—like, “I found my sock, sound the fanfare.” It can be a cute, cottagecore nod to pen-pal life, or a chaotic meme trumpet for BREAKING: vibes. Expect it in captions for shop drops, newsletter launches, or “hear ye, hear ye” moments.
On Apple/iOS, the postal horn is a shiny, gold/brass instrument with a single loop and a flared bell, rendered in Apple’s glossy 3D shading. It sits at a slight angle with the bell facing right, tiny mouthpiece on the left, and a neat decorative cord wrapped along the tube. The recognizable curl-plus-flared-bell silhouette makes it instantly scream “fanfare incoming,” even at thumbnail size.
A postal horn, used to notify people of a quickly approaching post rider or mail coach. Urgent mail is on the way and timely communication can mean the difference between success and failure. Blowing this horn means get out of the way, mail and parcels on the way to their destination, time is of the essence.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1820 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 | :postal_horn: |
| Keywords |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Communication Symbols |
It was true then and it is true now, people don't like to wait for their packages to arrive. It's all about speed when it comes to effective postal service. We stop for no one, so get out of the way!
| 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) | 1f4ef |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F4EF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128239 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0xAF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 93 AF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 223 257 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDCEF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddcef |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56559 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F4EF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F4EF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128239 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F4EF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x93\xaf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDCEF" |
