Meaning
Depicts a subway or metro train emerging from a tunnel, commonly used for urban rail transit and commuting.
Category: Travel & Places
🚇️metro
🚇️ metro belongs to Travel & Places. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:metro:
Keywords
subwaytravelmetro
What does 🚇️ metro mean?
The emoji shows a front-facing subway or metro train emerging from a dark, arched tunnel. It's often used to discuss underground rail systems, daily commutes, and getting around a city via public transit. Depending on context, it can refer to a specific city's metro system or to the general concept of urban rail travel.
Often used for
- Discussing a daily subway commute
- Giving or asking for transit directions in a city
- Talking about delays, service changes, or metro line issues
- Sharing travel plans that involve public transit
- Describing getting around a city without a car
Tone: Generally neutral and practical, with a slightly urban connotation since metro systems are associated with dense cities. Not typically used figuratively.
Illustrative message examples with 🚇️
These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.
- heading to work on the 🚇️, should be there by 9
- the 🚇️ is delayed again, gonna be late
- just take the 🚇️ to union station, way easier than driving
- first time taking the tokyo metro 🚇️ this system is incredible
- missed the last 🚇️, guess i'm getting a taxi home
- love not needing a car here, 🚇️ goes everywhere
Combos, text art & scenes with 🚇️
How 🚇️ metro looks
Appearance varies by device and platform — your system font draws the native version below.
OpenMoji artwork CC BY-SA 4.0 — see attributions.
🚇️ metro codes for developers
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| Emoji | 🚇️ | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+1F687 U+FE0F | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🚇️ | |
| HTML (hex) | 🚇️ | |
| CSS | \1F687\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F687}\u{FE0F} | |
| JSON | \uD83D\uDE87\uFE0F | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%9A%87%EF%B8%8F | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :metro: |
🚇️ in other languages
SpanishmetroFrenchmétroGermanU-BahnItalianmetropolitanaPortuguesemetrôRussianметроJapanese地下鉄Korean지하철Chinese地铁LithuanianmetroPolishmetro
Source: Unicode CLDR
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