The tram car emoji is the city-slicker cousin of trains: a street-level rail ride gliding past cafes, crosswalks, and people who absolutely missed their stop. It pops up in travel posts, commute check-ins, Eurotrip captions, and cheeky “next stop: coffee” messages. Online, it doubles as a vibe check for being back on track, or, ironically, for when you’re stuck behind 14 red lights and the schedule is pure fantasy. Expect it in main-character-moment stories—cue the reflective window stare as lo-fi beats play in the background.
On Apple devices, it appears as a single, side-view streetcar in yellow and gray with big rectangular windows, a dark roof, and that instantly recognizable diamond-shaped pantograph perched on top (no overhead wires in sight). The silhouette is boxy and modern, doors lined up neatly, signaling a street tram rather than a subway or a full train set. It reads unmistakably urban: compact, clean, and ready to ding-ding through downtown.
Culturally, it evokes Lisbon’s iconic yellow trams, Melbourne’s sprawling network, Prague’s red-and-cream streetcars, and even a subtle nod to “A Streetcar Named Desire” for the lit majors in the chat. People use it flirtatiously (“ride with me”), sarcastically about delays, or dramatically to signify a life detour with an “all aboard” energy. It’s also a go-to in sustainable transit threads, transit-nerd memes, and any post proving you didn’t skip leg day—you just stood on a moving vehicle for 40 minutes.
A tram is a light duty train most often used in cities to move people and travel short distances. A tram car is a portion of a tram. Trams can have one or many cars.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1737 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 | :train: |
| Keywords | Train, Locomotive, Rail |
| Unicode Category | Transport and Map Symbols |
| Unicode Range | 1F680–1F6FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Vehicles |
Or trolley. A passenger railcar meant for city roads powered by electricity@ Oh Imagine that! old iEmoji name: Trolley
| 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) | 1f68b |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F68B |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128651 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0x8B |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 9A 8B |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 232 213 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE8B |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde8b |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56971 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F68B |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F68B |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128651 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F68B" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x9a\x8b" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE8B" |
