📯
What 📯 means
A looped horn with a small holed entrance on one end and a wider opening on the other end, embellished in gold and characterized by a small rope wound in between with ornamental ends.
The 📯 Postal Horn emoji is essentially a musical instrument that was used to indicate the presence of post. This emoji could signify the act of signally, creating awareness, and also an ancient version of a 'notification'.
How and when to use it
- If you're sharing a picture or video of someone who's meeting you (and vice versa, ofc) after ages, you could use 📯 as a way of 'making noise' about it. Like, "Seeing this one's face literally after 7 years! 📯".
- Since the exact use of a postal horn could translate to a notification in the virtual world, use 📯 to indicate just that!. For example, "Congratulations! Your order has been placed. Stay tuned for further notifications 📯".
- You could also use 📯 while texting someone about the arrival and/departure of something or someone. For instance, "The crowd FINALLY left! 📯 My space is MINE, at last".
- Apart from just arrivals and departures, 📯 could be used to signal big news too - "I have great news for you this not-so-great morning, btw 📯" or "Listen up! Listen up 📯 Here's an update for all our followers".
- Also, 📯 comes in handy even while referring to musical instruments such as bugles.
Other Names
- 📯 Posthorn
- 📯 Post Horn German
- 📯 Cornet
- 📯 French Horn
- 📯 Bugle
- 📯 Alert Horn
- 📯 Blow Horn
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › sound
- Codepoints
U+1F4EF- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:postal_horn:- Keywords
- horn, post, postal
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 — 📯 Postal Horn or 🙆 Person Gesturing OK?