What does 📤 Outbox Tray mean?
An office tray with an arrow pointing up and out of it. It means sending, uploading or passing along outgoing items: emails, files, documents or anything you have finished. People use it for “sent”, “uploaded” or “submitted”, and it is common in work chats and file-sharing instructions. Its counterpart, 📥, means receiving or downloading instead.
📤 Outbox Tray is an emoji from the Objects category (mail), added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010. People use it in messages about box, email, letter, mail and sent.
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📤 Outbox Tray on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Outbox Tray looks on each platform.
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Outbox Tray emoji: questions & answers
How do I copy and paste the Outbox Tray emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 📤 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :outbox_tray:.
When was the Outbox Tray emoji added?
📤 Outbox Tray was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 📤 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Outbox Tray. The underlying code (U+1F4E4) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.