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📭 Open mailbox with lowered flag

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📭 Emoji meaning

Patience, waiting, no new messages, and no response.

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📭 Meaning

“I'm waiting for your message” or “You never write to me!” The lowered flag means that no mail arrived today. The outgoing mail was already taken by the postman.

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Commonly confused with

Color Variant

Open mailbox with lowered flag

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Open mailbox with raised flag

Open mailbox with raised flag vs open mailbox with lowered flag; differences about new/empty mail are subtle.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Open mailbox with lowered flag” was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 and added to Emoji 0.7 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ flag

Keywords removed

- open 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

+ open mailbox with lowered flag

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ lowered + mail + mailbox + open + postbox

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