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📨 Incoming envelope
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📨 Emoji meaning
Reply requested, contact, new message, confidential info.
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📨 Meaning
The letter just arrived! In the office, the incoming mail is often collected in an in-tray or box. Refers to (business) letters, mail or the sending of messages.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
E-mail vs incoming envelope; both icons appear in mailbox interfaces to represent new mail.
Incoming envelope vs envelope with arrow; arrow direction differences are small, semantics are similar.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Incoming envelope” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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+ delivering + mail + sent
In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
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- incoming envelope - mail
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ incoming envelope
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ e-mail + email + envelope + incoming + letter + mail + receive
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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- incoming
