Door open, flag down, nothing inside: the emptiest of the four mailbox emoji and the one state that reads exactly as it looks. It stands for zero new mail, a group chat gone quiet, an inbox checked and confirmed empty with nothing left to report.
What 📭 means
A blue mailbox, similar to the one in the 📬 Open Mailbox With Raised Flag, but with a lowered flag, instead of a raised one. The 📭 Open Mailbox With Lowered Flag suggests picked up outgoing mail but an empty mailbox as in a lack of incoming mails or posts.
How and when to use it
- If you're uploading a post with a caption about 'emptiness' either relating to a mailbox or generally, 📭 is your buddy. For example, "Nothing echoes louder than an empty mailbox 📭" or "An empty inbox has a lot of messages 📭".
- You could also use 📭 to say that you're out of touch with someone or even yourself. For instance, "I've cut off from everyone and everything and I've never felt better 📭".
- Reflecting back to the quotes in the first point, 📭 could represent the internet's way of being 'left on seen' or ignored, in other words. For example, "I sent may letters and got back none 📭" or "When you get nothing in return, you ought to cut the source of your hurt; you 📭".
- And from a general POV, 📭 could be used to suggest that any outgoing mail has been picked up or that there are no pending mails.
Other Names
- 📭 Empty Mailbox
- 📭 Empty Mailbox With Lowered Flag
- 📭 No Mails
- 📭 Open Mailbox With No Mails
- 📭 Mailbox
- 📭 Picked Up Mail
- 📭 No Pending Mail
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › mail
- Codepoints
U+1F4ED- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:mailbox_with_no_mail:- Keywords
- flag, lowered, mail, mailbox, open, postbox
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 📭 Open Mailbox with Lowered Flag or 🚣♀️ Woman Rowing Boat?