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Envelope Emoji ✉️

A plain sealed envelope, standing for a letter or a written message rather than any specific delivery method. It covers old-fashioned mail, a formal note, or just 'message me' in general, sitting a step more analog than 📧 E-Mail's inbox-specific version of the same idea.

What ✉️ means

A white paper folded into an envelope. The ✉️ Envelope emoji could represent mail, a money envelope, or even a letter(s) (both printed and handwritten). This emoji signifies the act of sealing something important, packaging, presentation, a message, and communication.

How and when to use it

Letters signify a sense of personalization that can be fulfilled by nobody but the person writing it. If you're referring to this kind of intimacy, you may use ✉️ - "Letters mingle souls more than kisses ever can ✉️".
Letters involve a certain amount of intricacy when it comes to flowing one's thoughts onto paper. Hence, you may also use ✉️ while referring to that flow in any framework. Like "Sometimes, letters may never make sense, because they hold the chaos with which we write them ✉️".
Use ✉️ while indicating the tradition of writing letters in a modern internet lifestyle. For example, "Emails and text messages can never match up to the style and feel of handwritten letters ✉️".
You could also use ✉️ to suggest the act of posting letters in any context. For example, "I remember the time when my gran used to wait for days just to post a love letter to granpa ✉️ and he would wait for long to receive it!".

Other Names

✉️ Mail
✉️ White Envelope
✉️ Letter
✉️ Letter Paper
✉️ Wrapping
✉️ Money Envelope
✉️ Post
✉️ Covering

The lowdown

Category: Objects › mail
Codepoints: U+2709 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :envelope: GitHub
Keywords: e-mail, email, envelope, letter

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.