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🚇️Metro Emoji
Tagged subway, travel, 🚇️ metro sits in Unicode's Ground Transportation group inside Travel & Places. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F687 U+FE0F.
What 🚇️ metro means
The largest travel family, and lopsided: more than a dozen separate rail characters survive from the Japanese carrier sets, including 🚝 monorail, 🚞 mountain railway and 🚋 tram car, which almost nobody sends. Daily use concentrates on 🚗 and 🚕 for getting somewhere, 🚨 for urgency or an announcement, and 🚧 for anything unfinished. 🦽 and 🦼 came later, in Emoji 12.0's accessibility batch.
Unicode tags this one subway, travel and files it under Travel & Places → Ground Transportation.
Copy variants
metro carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🚇️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🚇U+1F687metro
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F687 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🚇️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🚇️ | |
| CSS | \1F687\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F687}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F687\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDE87\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f687}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F687}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F687}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%9A%87%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 9A 87 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DE87 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+ah++4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128647 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- subway
- travel
Appears in these collections
How to type 🚇️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “metro”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “subway”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f687and Enter. - HTML — paste
🚇️.
How 🚇️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🚇️Apple
- 🚇️Segoe
- 🚇️Noto
- 🚇️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🚇️ metro emoji mean?+
🚇️ is the metro emoji, tagged subway, travel. The largest travel family, and lopsided: more than a dozen separate rail characters survive from the Japanese carrier sets, including 🚝 monorail, 🚞 mountain railway and 🚋 tram car, which almost nobody sends. Daily use concentrates on 🚗 and 🚕 for getting somewhere, 🚨 for urgency or an announcement, and 🚧 for anything unfinished. 🦽 and 🦼 came later, in Emoji 12.0's accessibility batch.
What is the Unicode code for 🚇️?+
metro is U+1F687 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🚇️, in CSS \1F687\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F687}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🚇️ emoji added?+
metro got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Ground Transportation in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🚇️ metro.