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📯 Postal horn
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📯 Emoji meaning
The mail is here! Delivery, courier, important message, or starting signal.
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📯 Meaning
“The mail has arrived” or “There are important news!” Symbol for the post, e.g. on mailboxes or at post offices. The post horn was used by stage coach drivers as a signal instrument in the early Middle Ages.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Postal horn vs trumpet; both horn instruments used for fanfares or alerts.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Postal horn” was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 .
In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
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- postal horn
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ postal horn
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ horn + post + postal
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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- horn - postal
