The high-speed train emoji is your go-to symbol for zooming through life at Shinkansen/TGV/ICE velocity. It screams fast progress, tight schedules actually working, and that sweet feeling of beating traffic by outsmarting it with rails. People drop it when they’re answering DMs at lightning pace, announcing travel plans, or bragging that their to-do list got speedrun any%. It’s the choo-choo, but make it Wi‑Fi and jet engines (metaphorically).
Online, it doubles as a mood: “on my way rn” energy, or “shipping soon” without the customer-service tone. Pair it with 💨, ⚡, ⏩, or 🧳 to flex motion and momentum, or use it flirtatiously like “bullet-train to you, brb.” Sarcastically, it’s gold: post it when something is painfully slow—“me: 🚄; my Wi‑Fi: 🐢”—or when a plan derails and you only wish you had high-speed anything. It also pops after railfan posts, Japan itinerary dumps, and movie nights featuring Bullet Train.
On Apple/iOS, this emoji shows a sleek, white, Shinkansen-style side profile with a rounded bullet nose, a slim colored stripe (often blue) running along the body, and dark window panels—set on rails and angled so it looks mid-sprint. The streamlined silhouette and clean, minimal styling make it instantly recognizable as the fast one, not your everyday clackety-commuter. One glance and you can almost hear the station chime.
Culturally, it nods to countries where rail is king—Japan’s Shinkansen, France’s TGV, Germany’s ICE, China’s HSR—aka the places where “on time” still means something. In meme-land, it’s the official badge of “we’re not walking, we’re warping.”
Definition
A very fast train used to carry people quickly from one place to another.
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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)
1534 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
:bullettrain_side:
Keywords
Train, Bullet, Rail
Previous Names:
High Speed Rail
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Transport and Map Symbols
Unicode Range
1F680–1F6FF
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Editorial Comment
High Speed Train or Bullet Train can reach speeds of 300MPH. Editor's Note: Damn this train looks sick as hell. I want to get on and ride it thing so bad. Props to the artist. One word: Whomp.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Names & Annotations
HIGH-SPEED TRAIN
Symbol Information
U+1F684 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-7E2
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#32 'Bullet train' 新幹線 U+E65D SJIS-F8BE JIS-7569
KDDI
#217 新幹線 U+E4B0 SJIS-F689 JIS-7569
Softbank
#209 #old400 新幹線(新型) U+E435 SJIS-FB75
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
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)
e435
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E435
Decimal Code Point(s)
58421
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x90 0xB5
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 90 B5
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 220 265
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE435
UTF-16 Hex
e435
UTF-16 Dec
58421
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E435
UTF-32 Hex
E435
UTF-32 Dec
58421
Python Src
u"\uE435"
PHP Src
"\xee\x90\xb5"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE435"
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)
1f684
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F684
Decimal Code Point(s)
128644
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0x84
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 9A 84
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 232 204
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDE84
UTF-16 Hex
d83dde84
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56964
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F684
UTF-32 Hex
01F684
UTF-32 Dec
128644
Python Src
u"\U0001F684"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x9a\x84"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDE84"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
