= running dash, briffits
The dashing away emoji is the classic comic-book whoosh: a fluffy puff of air that screams “I’m out!” before your text bubble even finishes sending. On Apple/iOS, it’s a soft blue‑white swirl of little cloud puffs with curvy motion lines, angled like it just zipped off-screen at cartoon speed—light, breezy, and instantly recognizable from manga-style speed effects. It visually reads as a gust of wind or the poofy smoke left behind when someone bolts, Road Runner–style.
People drop this when they’re running late, Irish-exiting a party, or dramatically peacing out of a chaotic group chat. Paired with 🏃 it becomes the universal sprint meme, and with 🍑 it flips straight into fart-joke territory (sorry, but also you’re welcome). It also moonlights in vape/weed culture combos—think 🚬💨 or 🍃💨—to suggest smoke clouds without spelling it out. Sarcastically, it’s great for “me leaving the convo,” “my motivation,” or “my paycheck disappearing,” and it’s perfect for a quick “yeet, I’m gone” vibe. Bonus points for anime fans who use it to channel a Naruto run or an off-screen dash mid-plot twist.
Dash Symbol, Running Dash .. the cloud of dust left behind.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 594 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 | :dash: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Dash Symbol Running Dash |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Comic Style Symbols |
| Unicode Category | Abstract Concepts |
| Unicode Subcategory | Comic Style Symbols |
| Names & Annotations | DASH SYMBOL = running dash Temporary Notes: Dash (running dash … the cloud of dust left behind) |
| Symbol Information | U+1F4A8 proposed |
| Proposal Identifier | e-B5D |
| DoCoMo | #164 'Dash (running dash)' ダッシュ(走り出すさま) 「datsushiyu(走ri出susama)」 U+E708 SJIS-F9AD JIS-764F |
| KDDI | #282 ダッシュ 「datsushiyu」 U+E4F4 SJIS-F6CD JIS-764F |
| Softbank | #76 #old318 ダッシュ 「datsushiyu」 U+E330 SJIS-F9D0 |
| 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) | e330 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E330 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 58160 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x8C 0xB0 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 8C B0 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 214 260 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE330 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e330 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 58160 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E330 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E330 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 58160 |
| Python Src | u"\uE330" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x8c\xb0" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE330" |
| 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) | 1f4a8 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F4A8 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128168 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0xA8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 92 A8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 222 250 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDCA8 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddca8 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56488 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F4A8 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F4A8 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128168 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F4A8" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x92\xa8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDCA8" |
| Emoji Encoding | DoCoMo | KDDI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | | | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |||
| Decimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾭝 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾭝 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e708 | e4f4 | feb5d |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E708 | U+E4F4 | U+FEB5D |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 59144 | 58612 | 1043293 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x9C 0x88 | 0xEE 0x93 0xB4 | 0xF3 0xBE 0xAD 0x9D |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 9C 88 | EE 93 B4 | F3 BE AD 9D |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 234 210 | 356 223 264 | 363 276 255 235 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE708 | 0xE4F4 | 0xDBBA 0xDF5D |
| UTF-16 Hex | e708 | e4f4 | dbbadf5d |
| UTF-16 Dec | 59144 | 58612 | 56250 57181 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E708 | 0x0000E4F4 | 0x000FEB5D |
| UTF-32 Hex | E708 | E4F4 | 0FEB5D |
| UTF-32 Dec | 59144 | 58612 | 1043293 |
| Python Src | u"\uE708" | u"\uE4F4" | u"\U000FEB5D" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x9c\x88" | "\xee\x93\xb4" | "\xf3\xbe\xad\x9d" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE708" | "\uE4F4" | "\uDBBA\uDF5D" |