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📪 Closed mailbox with lowered flag
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📪 Emoji meaning
No message written, nothing sent, mailbox empty.
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📪 Meaning
I’m expecting your letter! For the residents, the lowered flag means that no mail has been delivered. The postman does not have to take any mail with him. In the US, the mailbox is used to receive and send letters.
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Commonly confused with
Color Variant
Closed mailbox with raised flag vs closed mailbox with lowered flag; both mailboxes, flag detail is tiny.
Same Shape
Postbox vs mailbox; both indicate mailing letters in physical post.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Closed mailbox with lowered flag” 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.
Keywords changed
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+ flag
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- closed mailbox with lowered flag
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ closed mailbox with lowered flag
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ closed + lowered + mail + mailbox + postbox
