Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
💨Dashing Away Emoji
Generally, 💨 means something is moving quickly or disappearing. It’s often used to indicate speed or a sudden departure.
The 💨 emoji represents a puff of wind or smoke.
- Unicode
- U+1F4A8
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :dash:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 💨 Dashing Away emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 11.
People also look for it as smoke emoji, dash emoji.
02 — Platforms
Dashing Away emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F4A8. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Dashing Away emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :dash:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F4A8.
04 — How to type
How to type the 💨 Dashing Away emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Dashing Away emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the dashing away as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Dashing Away emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around dashing away for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 💨 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Around the world
What 💨 means in other countries
Usually read as speed or a quick exit, though it’s also a common stand-in joke for passing gas online.
Marks a fast exit, being in a rush, or “I’m out” after a joke or awkward moment.
Frequently used as a wink-wink fart joke, especially paired with other comic emoji.
Before you send it: Fine for “running late” or “heading out” messages; in a joke-heavy thread it may read as toilet humor instead.
09 — Apps
What 💨 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F4A8, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — History
Where the 💨 Dashing Away emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F4A8 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
💨 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E708, KDDI au E4F4, SoftBank E330.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Dashing Away was approved as U+1F4A8 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 💨 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ