Envelope

U+2709

About Envelope

Envelope is the Unicode character ✉️ at codepoint U+2709 in the Dingbats block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Developer Notes

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Envelope

To use the Envelope symbol (✉️) in HTML, insert the entity ✉️ directly into your markup.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2709';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2709' evaluates to ✉️. In Python source, write '\u2709'.

The character encodes to E2 9C 89 as UTF-8 bytes and 2709 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9993.

This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.

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