Envelope
U+2709✉Emoji or pictograph · decimal ✉
Office Symbols Copy & Paste
Browse 50 office symbols used in professional and technical writing. Encoded largely within Dingbats. 28 render as text and 22 as emoji.
Copy office symbols
50 characters and sequences. Pick one to put its exact characters on your clipboard.
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Office Symbols with Unicode names and HTML codes
A sample of 12 entries from the 50 on this page. Where two entries look the same, the name settles it. The HTML references beside each name reproduce the code-point sequence character for character.
Black Telephone
U+260E☎Emoji or pictograph · decimal ☎
Round Pushpin
U+1F4CD📍Emoji or pictograph · decimal 📍
Briefcase
U+1F4BC💼Emoji or pictograph · decimal 💼
Service Mark
U+2120℠Symbol · decimal ℠
Numero Sign
U+2116№Symbol · decimal №
Aktieselskab
U+214D⅍Symbol · decimal ⅍
Lower Blade Scissors
U+2703✃Symbol · decimal ✃
Pencil
U+270F✏Emoji or pictograph · decimal ✏
Section Sign
U+00A7§Punctuation · decimal §
Black Right Pointing Index
U+261B☛Symbol · decimal ☛
Writing Hand
U+270D U+FE0F✍ ️Emoji sequence · decimal ✍ ️
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Office symbols for mail, files, calendars and tools
Marks for contact details, task lists, file references, calendars and workplace notes.
The mixed office set is organized around communication, documents, scheduling, attachments and workplace objects. In navigation and forms, retain a visible action label beside the pictogram. That amounts to 50 copyable values here — 47 of them one character long, 3 longer.
Names such as Envelope, Black Telephone, Round Pushpin, Briefcase appear here, and counting every entry puts Variation Selector-16 (3), Envelope (1), Lower Right Pencil (1) at the top. Single-character values span U+00A7 to U+1F5A8.
Browse office symbols by type
Mail and communication
5 entries
Documents and writing
6 entries
Scheduling and data
2 entries
Tools and attachments
6 entries
Other related forms
31 entries
The shape of this collection
Where office symbols sit in the code space
Single-character entries cover U+00A7 to U+1F5A8, breaking down by general category as symbol 43, punctuation 4.
Name patterns that repeat
Counted across the stored entries, the commonest name patterns are Variation Selector-16 (3), Envelope (1), Lower Right Pencil (1).
How the multi-part entries are built
3 entries span more than one code point: 0 with a zero-width joiner, 3 with a variation selector, the longest running to 2 code points.
Picking the right office symbol
Two look almost the same: Black Telephone and Black Right Pointing Index. They are different characters: U+260E and U+261B. Start with other related forms.
It is the biggest group, with 31. Scheduling and data is the specialist choice, with just 2. Want colour?
Pick one of the 22 emoji. Want it to match your text? Pick one of the 28 plain ones.
Test the result in the real app before you use it.
Office pictograms are useful as supporting labels for email, phone, calendar and files. In forms and navigation, retain visible words so the action is not dependent on interpreting an icon.
24Symbol
Standalone marks that follow your font. 48% here.
19Emoji or pictograph
Colour artwork, supplied by the platform. 38% here.
4Punctuation
Marks that structure written text. 8% here.
3Emoji sequence
Several code points joined into one image. 6% here.
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Office Symbols explained in plain English
Short summary
There are 50 office symbols here. All of them copy in one click. Most of them, 31 in all, are other related forms. They come mostly from one part of Unicode: Dingbats. 28 are plain text. The other 22 are emoji, so your phone or computer draws them in colour.
How the 5 groups divide
They split into mail and communication, documents and writing and scheduling and data. Other related forms leads with 31.
Which blocks they come from
They come from Dingbats (15), Letterlike Symbols (10) and Miscellaneous Symbols (9). They span U+00A7 to U+1F5A8, so no one font covers them all.
Two that look alike
Black Telephone and Black Right Pointing Index look alike. They are not the same character.
3 entries are sequences
3 use more than one character. Copy the whole thing or it breaks.
Terms worth knowing
The vocabulary below comes from the formal names and groupings of these office symbols.
- Mail and communication
- Documents and writing
- Scheduling and data
- Tools and attachments
- Other related forms
- Office
- Work
- Phone
- Paperclip
- Calendar
- Envelope
Side by side
| Type | Examples | Good for | Watch for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mail and communication | ✉ ☎ ℡ | Technical reports and measurements | Using an envelope without clarifying whether it means email or message |
| Documents and writing | ✎ ✐ 🖇 | Office labels and contact details | Replacing a form label with an unfamiliar object |
| Scheduling and data | 📅 📊 | Legal, medical and professional notes | Expecting emoji office objects to align like monochrome text symbols |
| Tools and attachments | ✂ ⌨ 🖨 | Technical reports and measurements | Using an envelope without clarifying whether it means email or message |
What the office symbols inventory actually contains
Every figure below is counted from the 50 entries stored for this page rather than estimated. The characters are drawn from Dingbats (15), Letterlike Symbols (10) and Miscellaneous Symbols (9).
| Group | Entries | Examples | Code points | Usual presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mail and communication | 5 | ✉ ☎ ℡ | U+2121–U+2709 | Text presentation |
| Documents and writing | 6 | ✎ ✐ 🖇 | U+270E–U+1F587 | Emoji presentation |
| Scheduling and data | 2 | 📅 📊 | U+1F4C5–U+1F4CA | Emoji presentation |
| Tools and attachments | 6 | ✂ ⌨ 🖨 | U+2328–U+1F5A8 | Emoji presentation |
| Other related forms | 31 | 📌 📍 💼 | U+00A9–U+1F4CD | Emoji presentation |
Practical note: Presentation is the typical default. A variation selector, a specific font stack, or an application that overrides emoji rendering can change what you see after pasting.
Where to go next
Compare these choices with writing symbols and check symbols. For a deeper explanation, read Technical and Math Symbols: Choosing the Correct Character. If one question is enough, read are unicode mathematical symbols safe to use in equations?.
Tip: Keep the plain words next to the symbol. Text is what makes a design searchable and readable to someone using a screen reader.
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How to use office symbols
Copying stores text, so the value survives the clipboard intact. Paste it with Ctrl V, ⌘ V or your device's Paste command.
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Technical reports and measurements
Start with Envelope. It works nearly everywhere.
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Office labels and contact details
Other related forms suits office labels and contact details. Pick one whose stroke weight matches the text around it.
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Legal, medical and professional notes
When creating legal, medical and professional notes, paste the complete entry — several of these are multi-code-point sequences that break if truncated.
Copy-ready office symbols examples for technical reports and measurements
Technical reports and measurements
✉ Office referenceOffice labels and contact details
✉ ✎ ✐Legal, medical and professional notes
✐ office ✉05
How to type office symbols on a keyboard
Copying is quicker, but these are typeable too. On Windows the alt code is the character's decimal code point; in Word the hexadecimal followed by Alt X does the same job without a keypad.
| Character | Name | Windows | Hex | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✉ | Envelope | Alt 9993 | 2709 | ✉ |
| ☎ | Black Telephone | Alt 9742 | 260E | ☎ |
| 📍 | Round Pushpin | Not available | 1F4CD | 📍 |
| 💼 | Briefcase | Not available | 1F4BC | 💼 |
| ℠ | Service Mark | Alt 8480 | 2120 | ℠ |
| № | Numero Sign | Alt 8470 | 2116 | № |
Alt codes reach only the first 65,536 code points, and only from a numeric keypad. 9 entries here sit above that ceiling. A further 3 are sequences, which no shortcut reproduces — copy those instead. The complete keyboard guide covers every platform method in full.
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How office symbols render across fonts, apps and devices
Unicode keeps 44% of these in Dingbats. The rest come from Letterlike Symbols and Miscellaneous Symbols. 28 act like letters.
They take the colour of the text around them. The other 22 are emoji, so the system picks their colour, not you. Unicode files the emoji ones under Objects and People & Body.
3 entries are made of several parts. Copy the whole thing, or it breaks apart. Some are as recent as Emoji 0.7, so old devices may draw an empty box.
A pasted entry is redrawn by the receiving application's font. Expect small differences in width and weight across devices, and larger ones where a font lacks the character entirely.
47Single characters
3Sequences
22Emoji properties
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Common mistakes with office symbols
- 1
Using an envelope without clarifying whether it means email or message.
- 2
Replacing a form label with an unfamiliar object.
- 3
Expecting emoji office objects to align like monochrome text symbols.
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Office Symbols questions and answers
What is the difference between Black Telephone and Black Right Pointing Index?+
U+260E is Black Telephone; U+261B is Black Right Pointing Index. Because the encoded identity differs, substituting one for the other can change what a reader or a piece of software understands.
What is the HTML code for envelope?+
Write ✉ (hex) or ✉ (decimal) to get ✉. Numeric references sidestep encoding problems in older toolchains.
Which office symbols work as plain text rather than emoji?+
Look for the 28 non-emoji entries. Those behave like letters — style them, colour them, put them in a heading. The 22 emoji entries are drawn by the operating system instead.
Why does one of these office symbols split apart when I paste it?+
3 entries here are sequences of more than one code point. If the destination does not support the sequence, or if the copy was truncated, the parts render individually. Copy the entry with the button rather than by selecting the characters.
Which Unicode block are these office symbols in?+
Dingbats holds most of them — 15 characters; the rest come from Letterlike Symbols and Miscellaneous Symbols. Coverage tends to follow the block: long-established ones render nearly everywhere, recent additions do not.
Will these office symbols work on older phones?+
The newest entry on this page was introduced in Emoji 0.7. Devices that have not received a font update since then will show a blank rectangle instead. Test on a real older device before using a recent character where the meaning matters.
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Learn more about office symbols
Useful alongside these office symbols
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Pair a office symbol with styled letters in the Symbol Maker. Every tool on this site runs locally and is listed in the Unicode tools hub.
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Where this data comes from
Every figure on this page is computed from the stored inventory of 50 entries. Names, general categories and code points are generated from the Unicode 17.0 character database rather than typed by hand; emoji membership is read from the emoji data files published alongside it.
- Unicode Character Database — UnicodeData.txt (formal names and general categories)
- Unicode emoji-test.txt (fully-qualified emoji sequences and grouping)
- The Unicode Standard, current version
- How CoolSymbol.now sources, counts and tests this data