The bus emoji is your digital ride for anything public transit, commute chaos, or “I’m en route, promise!” energy. It’s the everyday mover of cities—think schedules, stops, and that dramatic sprint when you hear the doors beep. Not the red double-decker one (that’s its own celeb); this is the regular city/school-style bus that screams weekday reality and field-trip nostalgia.
People drop it in texts to say they’re commuting, running late, or rallying the group chat for an outing—“field trip!” vibes included. It doubles as a meme tool for “throwing someone under the bus,” served with playful betrayal energy. You’ll also see it in hype mode—“get on the bus” as in jump on the plan, the trend, the party bus—versus the train when you want a quirkier bandwagon. Add a dramatic bus emoji when you just missed your ride for instant sympathy likes.
On Apple devices, the bus shows a side-view, bright yellow body with blue-tinted windows, chunky black tires, and a gray bumper, usually facing right. It has that clean, glossy iOS finish with simple door lines and a front light that makes it instantly recognizable at thumb-speed. It can give off school-bus nostalgia, “Wheels on the Bus” earworm included, but it reads just as well for city routes, airport shuttles, and megabus-level road trips.
Definition
A bus used to move people from one place to another. The wheels on the bus go round and…
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
597 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
:bus:
Keywords
Bus, School, City, Transportation, Public
Previous Names:
Passenger Bus
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Transport and Map Symbols
Unicode Range
1F680–1F6FF
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Editorial Comment
An orange bus with many windows similar to a school bus. Not very aerodynamic. Actual name: Bus
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Names & Annotations
BUS Old name: BUS-2
Symbol Information
U+1F68C proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-7E6
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#35 'Bus' バス 「basu」 U+E660 SJIS-F8C1 JIS-7568
KDDI
#216 バス 「basu」 U+E4AF SJIS-F688 JIS-7568
Softbank
#199 #old179 バス 「basu」 U+E159 SJIS-F79A
Emoji Character Encoding Data
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)
1f68c
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F68C
Decimal Code Point(s)
128652
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0x8C
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 9A 8C
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 232 214
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDE8C
UTF-16 Hex
d83dde8c
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56972
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F68C
UTF-32 Hex
01F68C
UTF-32 Dec
128652
Python Src
u"\U0001F68C"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x9a\x8c"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDE8C"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
