Postal horn emoji meaning

The postal horn emoji 📯 resembles a traditional brass instrument with a long, curved tube and a flared bell, echoing historical postal services where horns signaled the arrival of mail. This emoji often symbolizes communication, messages, or announcements, usually connected to mailing or postal contexts. It is popularly used in combination with other emojis to indicate that something is coming or to act as a playful representation of emails and announcements.

The postal horn emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09114