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Outbox Tray Emoji 📤

A desk tray marked with an upward arrow, the office fixture where outgoing letters and memos used to sit before someone came to collect them. Online it means a message already sent, the mirror of an inbox, marking the moment something left your hands rather than whether it landed.

What 📤 means

A seemingly wooden tray with a white exterior and a blue interior. Similar to the tray in the 📨 Incoming Envelope, this emoji has an addition of an upward red arrow placed above the tray.

The 📤 Outbox Tray emoji represents the 'outbox' generally found on emailing platforms. Contrary to the 📩 Envelope With Arrow, this emoji suggests being on the giving/sending end. It signifies a sense of being temporary, on the pending list and even a delay.

How and when to use it

An outbox could also signify a sense of temporariness; before it is gratified with better signal and connectivity. For example, "Dude, this wouldn't last long, man 📤. Relax. He'll soon see you for you".
The concept of an outbox may also be used metaphorically. How? Here's how - "If all that you give takes forever to be acknowledged 📤, retrieve it. It's not worth it".
📤 can be used as a reference to internet terms such as 'Follow'. If you're asking someone to follow a page/person, you may use this emoji. Like, "Follow this account for more intriguing artwork! 📤".
You can use 📤 even using the action of 'uploading' in any context - "Do I upload this picture?? 📤".
An outbox essentially refers to emails that are pending or yet to be sent; suggesting a delay. So, if you're indicating this delay in any context, you may use 📤. Like, "They're saying the delivery might take a while longer 📤" or "It's still loading, hasn't been posted yet 📤".

Other Names

📤 Outbox
📤 Pending Mails
📤 Sending Mails
📤 Delay
📤 Outbox Tray
📤 Uploading
📤 Sharing
📤 Outbox Icon

The lowdown

Category: Objects › mail
Codepoints: U+1F4E4
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :outbox_tray:
Keywords: box, email, letter, mail, outbox, sent, tray

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.