Email & Communication Symbols

Two of these entries are the same character with and without a variation selector — a useful demonstration of how Unicode controls text versus emoji rendering. This collection holds 8 email & communication symbols drawn from 3 Unicode blocks — mainly Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols. Code points run from U+260E to U+1F5E8. 5 of them sit above U+FFFF, in the supplementary planes, so they are more likely to render as colour emoji on phones and may be rejected by older software that assumes every character fits in two bytes.

The envelope, twice

✉ is U+2709 on its own. ✉️ is the same U+2709 followed by U+FE0F, the emoji variation selector. The selector is invisible and has no width, but it requests the colour emoji form rather than the text form.

Variation selectors count

That invisible selector is still a character. A field with a length limit counts it, and a service that strips unusual characters may remove it, silently turning your emoji envelope back into flat text.

The rest are emoji

📨 📩 📧 💬 🗨 are supplementary-plane characters. 🗨 is unusual in having a text presentation by default, so it often renders monochrome next to its colourful neighbours.

Unicode blocks in this collection

Sample characters and their code points