The light rail emoji is your compact, city-slicking trainโthink street-level rails, quick stops, and big "next stop" energy. On Apple devices, itโs a front-facing, boxy car perched on short tracks, with a wide dark windshield and twin headlights, usually in a silvery-gray body with a yellow accent panel that makes it pop. The pose is straight-on like itโs rolling right at you, giving strong commuter-core vibes and instant "Iโm en route" clarity. You can practically hear the soft ding of doors closing.
People use this to say theyโre commuting, heading downtown, or flexing eco-friendly travel without a full TED Talk. Itโs common in transit memes about delays, transfer chaos, or that last-minute sprint to catch the final run of the night. It can be flirty or cheekyโ"ride the same line?"โor dramatic: "last train out, wish me luck." Youโll see it paired with city chat, railfan posts, or urban planning debates where everyone suddenly becomes a transit expert. Itโs also perfect for "soft launching" a night out: post the light rail and let followers infer the destination.
A train designed to move people (light loads) around a city relatively quickly when compared to heavy rail systems. Portland Oregon has a world renowned light rail system.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1351 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 | :light_rail: |
| Keywords | Train, Rail, Light |
| Unicode Category | Transport and Map Symbols |
| Unicode Range | 1F680โ1F6FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Vehicles |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🚈 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🚈 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f688 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F688 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128648 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0x88 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 9A 88 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 232 210 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE88 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde88 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56968 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F688 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F688 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128648 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F688" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x9a\x88" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE88" |
