Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
🚇Metro Emoji
Generally, it just means a subway or underground train. People use it to indicate they’re talking about public transport or are planning a trip involving it.
The 🚇 emoji is a metro sign.
- Unicode
- U+1F687
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :metro:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🚇 Metro emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Metro emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F687 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your metro looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Metro 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 :metro:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the metro, code point U+1F687.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🚇 Metro emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F687 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Metro emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the metro 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
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Metro emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around metro 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
Who sent the metro and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 🚇 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the metro lands changes how it is taken.
10 — History
Where the 🚇 Metro 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+1F687 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 E65C, KDDI au E5BC, SoftBank E434.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Metro was approved as U+1F687 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.
11 — FAQ