A postal horn (post horn). Depicted as a coiled, valveless, brass horn, like a bugle or trumpet, with two red tassels. Sometimes used to mark announcements as well as for various content concerning brass instruments, music, or mail.
In the 18–19th centuries, post horns signaled the arrival of and cleared the way for mail coaches, like a modern-day siren. Used today as a symbol on postboxes (mailboxes) and by many European postal services, as seen featured in 🏤 European Post Office.
Emoji | 📯 |
Unicode Name | Postal Horn |
Apple Name | Postal Horn |
Also Known As | French Horn, Bugle |
Codepoints | U+1F4EF |
Language | Name |
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Bengali | পসটল হরণ |
Danish | posthorn |
German | posthorn |
English | postal horn |
Spanish | corneta de posta |
French | cor postal |
Hindi | पसटल हरन |
Italian | corno postale |
Japanese | 郵便ラッパ |
Korean | 호른 |
Marathi | पसटल हरन |
Malay | hon pos |
Dutch | posthoorn |
Norwegian | posthorn |
Portuguese | corneta postal |
Swedish | postsymbol |
Tamil | பஸடல ஹரன |
Telugu | పసటల హరన |
Chinese | 邮号 |