📧 Meaning – e-Mail Emoji

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The image of an envelope with the letter "E" or the symbol "@" written on it is the emoji that symbolises electronic mail. It can refer to the act of sending or receiving an email. Email Symbol Emoji can mean "I've just received an email from her!" or "She didn't say much in her email.".

The e-Mail Emoji appeared in 2010, and now is mainly known as the Email Symbol Emoji, but also may be reffered as the Envelope Symbol. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Mail Symbol.

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Email Symbol Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F4E7
Unicode name: e-Mail
Category: Objects / Mail
Keywords: email, letter, mail, communication
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F4E7
Decimal HTML Entity: 📧
Hex HTML Entity: 📧
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83D 0xDCE7
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

🌐 Email Symbol Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	E-Mail	Brief, E-Mail-Symbol
Français	e-mail	courrier électronique, message
Русский	электронная почта	конверт, письмо, почта, сообщение, электронное письмо, электронное сообщение
Español	correo electrónico	comunicación, correo, sobre
Italiano	e-mail	comunicazione, email, lettera, posta, posta elettronica
Português	e-mail	carta, comunicação, correspondência
Polski	e-mail	email, list, mail, poczta elektroniczna

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How to type e-Mail Emoji

There are number of methods to type Email Symbol Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 📧 emoji

It's very easy to get e-Mail Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 📧 meaning and look at 📧 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

📧 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.