The bus stop emoji is the universal symbol for “hang tight, I’m waiting on life (and public transit).” It’s perfect for texting that you’re en route, stranded by a flaky schedule, or living your main-character moment under a streetlamp like you’re in a Studio Ghibli scene waiting for a very polite catbus. People also use it ironically when a convo stalls—like, “I’m at the bus stop of your replies,” aka waiting area for the chronically left-on-read. Bonus vibe: commuting, meet-ups, school-run nostalgia, and the eternal marathon known as catching the bus in the rain.
On Apple/iOS, it shows a clean signpost: a slim gray pole topped with a blue square sign featuring a crisp white bus icon, flat and tidy like a transit app mockup. No bench, no shelter—just that sleek, instantly recognizable blue-and-white pictogram, front-facing and minimal, like the stop icon you’d see on a city map. It reads as efficient, urban, and a little clinical—great for ETA texts, route drops, or hinting you’re posted up on the curb scrolling socials.
Online, it’s used playfully for “wait for it,” “pick me up?” and “real-life loading screen” jokes. Drop it with a time stamp to flex punctuality, or pair it with a sprinting emoji to confess you’re late-late. It even goes low-key flirty: “Meet me at the bus stop” has rom-com energy, a meet-cute in emoji form. And when transit chaos hits, this emoji becomes a meme about patience, queue culture, and the hopes and dreams pinned to a timetable that may or may not exist.
Definition
This is where you get on or off a bus. Buses stop at bus stations. Most bus systems have strict safety rules that require that people only get on or off the bus at bus stations.
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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)
1776 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:busstop:
Keywords
Bus, Stop, City, Transport, Transportation
Previous Names:
Japanese Bus Stop
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Transport and Map Symbols
Unicode Range
1F680–1F6FF
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Editorial Comment
Also Pepsi's old symbol.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Names & Annotations
BUS STOP
Symbol Information
U+1F68F proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-7E7
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[バス停]
KDDI
#209 バス停 「basu停」 U+E4A7 SJIS-F680 JIS-7560
Softbank
#347 #old170 バス停 「basu停」 U+E150 SJIS-F791
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)
1f68f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F68F
Decimal Code Point(s)
128655
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 9A 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 232 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDE8F
UTF-16 Hex
d83dde8f
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56975
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F68F
UTF-32 Hex
01F68F
UTF-32 Dec
128655
Python Src
u"\U0001F68F"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x9a\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDE8F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
