🚌Bus Emoji
Generally, the 🚌 emoji just means “bus”. People use it to represent taking a bus or to talk about bus routes.
The 🚌 emoji is a bus.
- Unicode
- U+1F68C
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :bus:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🚌 Bus emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 2.
Bus emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the bus as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Bus emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :bus:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F68C.
How to type the 🚌 Bus emoji
No picker to hand? The bus can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Bus emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the bus as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Bus emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around bus for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🚌, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🚌 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🚌 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the bus lands changes how it is taken.
🚌 vs 👤 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Bus
Code: U+1F68C · added 2010
Shortcode: :bus:
Generally, the 🚌 emoji just means “bus”.
Unicode name: Bust in Silhouette
Code: U+1F464 · added 2010
Shortcode: :bust_in_silhouette:
Generally, 👤 means “me” or “I”.
Where the 🚌 Bus 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+1F68C 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 E660, KDDI au E4AF, SoftBank E159.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Bus was approved as U+1F68C 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.