Train Emoji

Travel

A side-view illustration of a modern passenger train car, typically colored blue or silver, moving forward on a track. It highlights the streamlined front end and the carriage windows used for rail travel.

Usage Context

Used to discuss public transit, daily commutes, or upcoming travel plans. It often pops up in messages about train delays, station locations, or general excitement for a trip. Users frequently pair it with 🚅 for high-speed rail or 🚉 to specify a station setting.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial push to bring emoji support to global mobile platforms. The design draws directly from the early Japanese emoji sets that were essential for navigating public transportation schedules on feature phones in the 1990s.

Details

Glyph

🚆

Unicode

U+1F686

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f686:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE86;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-ground

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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