Motorway Emoji

Travel

A dark asphalt highway stretching into the horizon, marked with white dashed lanes. It shows the perspective of a driver looking down a straight stretch of high-speed roadway.

Usage Context

Used to talk about road trips, long-distance driving, or commute times. It is the go-to choice for signaling that you are currently on the move or heading out on a vacation. People often pair it with 🚗 or ✈️ to describe travel plans or the feeling of being stuck in traffic.

History

Added in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, this emoji was designed to reflect the expansion of global transit infrastructure. It fits into the broader set of transportation icons meant to replace short-hand text descriptions for navigation and trip updates in mobile messaging apps.

Details

Glyph

🛣

Unicode

U+1F6E3

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6e3:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDEE3;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-ground

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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