Mountain cableway Emoji

Travel

A side-view illustration of a gondola or cable car suspended from a thick overhead wire. The cabin is typically depicted in red or blue, featuring a large window meant to offer passengers a view of high-altitude terrain.

Usage Context

Used to discuss ski trips, mountain vacations, or scenic transit routes. It serves as a go-to icon for winter sports and alpine travel, often appearing alongside 🏔️ or ⛷️ when users share updates from mountain resorts.

History

This emoji was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. It was part of an expansion intended to cover various modes of specialized transit, drawing inspiration from the cable car systems that became essential for tourism and infrastructure in mountainous regions during the 20th century.

Details

Glyph

🚠

Unicode

U+1F6A0

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6a0:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDEA0;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-air

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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