U+1F4EE Postbox
U+1F4EE was added to Unicode in version 6.0 (2010). It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as mailbox for sending mail.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F4EE behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “postbox” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: mail, mailbox, postbox.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 📮︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A post box (British English; also written postbox; also known as pillar box), also known as a collection box, mailbox, letter box or drop box (American English) is a physical box into which members of the public can deposit outgoing mail intended for collection by the agents of a country's postal service. The term post box can also refer to a private letter box for incoming mail.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 128238 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 93 AE |
| UTF-16 | D8 3D DC EE |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F4 EE |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%93%AE |
| HTML hex reference | 📮 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 📮 |
| alias | mailbox for sending mail |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 6.0 (2010) | |
| POSTBOX | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Postbox | |
| ✘ | |
| Postbox | |
| Postbox | |
| ✘ | |
| Postbox | |
| Postbox | |
| Postbox | |
| Postbox | |
| Postbox | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Postbox | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Postbox | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
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| Other | |
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| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Postbox | |
| None | |
| Wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Postbox | |
| U |