The minibus emoji is your digital shuttle, a compact people-mover for when the squad is rolling out IRL or at least pretending to. On Apple/iOS it looks like a clean white passenger van angled to the right, with blue-tinted windows, a visible sliding-door seam, dark wheels, and that practical, no-frills shuttle vibe. You can practically hear the seatbelts clicking and the driver saying, “one more seat in the back!”
People drop it in chats to say “we’re carpooling,” “airport run time,” or “field trip energy,” and it doubles as the unofficial emoji for designated drivers and soccer-practice parents. In meme mode it screams “the group chat is pulling up,” “band tour but make it broke,” or the classic “get in, loser” energy. It’s also a nod to real-world minibus culture worldwide—from bustling shuttle routes to colorfully customized rides—so it can carry local flavor when you’re talking city commutes. Used sarcastically, it can mean “arriving with too much drama” or “I packed my emotional baggage and brought a whole vehicle.” Drop it with a calendar or luggage emoji to plan a trip, or pair with a siren for chaotic road-trip vibes; throw it next to a party popper when the “party bus” is actually just Kyle’s mom’s van. Bonus: it’s a neat stand-in for vans in general when you need “utility but friendly,” not a sketchy white van joke.
A bus that is small in size but still large enough to be called a bus.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 906 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :minibus: |
| Keywords | Bus, City, Transport, Transportation |
| Unicode Category | Transport and Map Symbols |
| Unicode Range | 1F680–1F6FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Vehicles |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🚐 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🚐 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🚐 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🚐 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f690 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F690 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128656 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0x90 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 9A 90 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 232 220 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE90 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde90 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56976 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F690 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F690 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128656 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F690" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x9a\x90" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE90" |
