The railway car emoji is the no-frills train carriage—the middle kid between the flashy locomotive and the caboose. On Apple/iOS, it’s a front-facing, boxy railcar with big windows, bright headlights, and that telltale metal pantograph perched on top, all rolling on shiny steel tracks. It looks like a clean, electric commuter car you’d see gliding into a city station at rush hour.
People use it for travel updates, daily commute chats, and “I’m on track” moments—both literally and metaphorically. It’s also prime meme material: stack a few of these after a 🚂 to build a proper hype train, especially in Twitch chats or group texts where everyone’s piling on the excitement. Flip the mood with sarcasm—drop it in after a delay rant or “my week is off the rails” meltdown for dramatic commuter-core energy. It can even go flirty or cozy: “last train home?” carries rom-com final-scene vibes, especially paired with a moon and a station sign.
Culturally, it nods to big-city transit life—Tokyo punctuality, NYC subway chaos, and every crushed-into-the-doors 9-to-5 tale. Visually, the emoji’s squared front, twin lights, and roof gear are the instant giveaways, making it a recognizable stand-in for subways, trams, and any electric railcar you sprint toward when the doors start beeping.
Definition
A vehicle pulled behind a locomotive that carries people or other cargo. This emoji is a bit confusing because it looks like a light rail or other self-propelled electric trolley.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1602 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
:railway_car:
Keywords
Railway, Rail, Car, Coach, Train
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Transport and Map Symbols
Unicode Range
1F680–1F6FF
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Names & Annotations
RAILWAY CAR
Symbol Information
U+1F683 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-7DF
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#30 'Train' 電車 U+E65B SJIS-F8BC JIS-756E
KDDI
#172 電車 U+E4B5 SJIS-F68E JIS-756E
Softbank
#205 #old30 電車 U+E01E SJIS-F95E
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)
1f683
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F683
Decimal Code Point(s)
128643
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0x83
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 9A 83
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 232 203
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDE83
UTF-16 Hex
d83dde83
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56963
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F683
UTF-32 Hex
01F683
UTF-32 Dec
128643
Python Src
u"\U0001F683"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x9a\x83"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDE83"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
