Meaning
A brass postal horn, historically used to announce mail delivery and arrivals.
Category: Objects
📯postal horn
📯 postal horn belongs to Objects. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:postal_horn:
Keywords
hornpostpostalpostal horn
What does 📯 postal horn mean?
The postal horn emoji depicts a brass instrument historically used by postilions to signal the arrival or departure of mail coaches. Today, it is often used in a literal sense to represent mail, postal services, or package deliveries. Depending on context, it can also refer to brass instruments or fanfare announcements.
Often used for
- Discussing mail, packages, or postal deliveries
- Talking about traditional brass instruments or fanfares
- Referencing historical mail coaches or postilions
- Announcing news or an incoming message in a dramatic way
Tone: Because it is a niche object, it can sometimes be confused with a general musical horn or hunting horn. It generally carries a formal or historical tone rather than a casual one.
Illustrative message examples with 📯
These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.
- just got the shipping confirmation 📯
- waiting on the mailman to drop off the package 📯
- they played the fanfare right before the announcement 📯
- my package is finally out for delivery 📯
- checking the mailbox every five minutes like a maniac 📯
Combos, text art & scenes with 📯
Emoji combos
🏤 → 📯
How 📯 postal horn looks
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OpenMoji artwork CC BY-SA 4.0 — see attributions.
📯 postal horn codes for developers
Every format below produces 📯 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.
| Emoji | 📯 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+1F4EF | |
| HTML (decimal) | 📯 | |
| HTML (hex) | 📯 | |
| CSS | \1F4EF | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4EF} | |
| JSON | \uD83D\uDCEF | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%93%AF | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :postal_horn: |
📯 in other languages
Spanishcorneta de postaFrenchcor postalGermanPosthornItaliancorno postalePortuguesecorneta postalRussianпочтовый рожокJapanese郵便ラッパKorean호른Chinese邮号Lithuanianpašto ragasPolishtrąbka pocztowa
Source: Unicode CLDR
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