🚍Oncoming Bus Emoji
Generally, the 🚍 emoji means a bus is approaching. It’s a visual way to talk about journeys, delays, or the feeling of being stuck in traffic.
The 🚍 emoji represents an oncoming bus.
- Unicode
- U+1F68D
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :oncoming_bus:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🚍 Oncoming Bus emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
Oncoming Bus emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F68D. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Oncoming Bus emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :oncoming_bus:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F68D.
How to type the 🚍 Oncoming Bus emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Oncoming Bus emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Oncoming Bus emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around oncoming 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
Who sent the oncoming bus and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🚍 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🚍 vs 🚌 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Oncoming Bus
Code: U+1F68D · added 2014
Shortcode: :oncoming_bus:
Generally, the 🚍 emoji means a bus is approaching.
Unicode name: Bus
Code: U+1F68C · added 2010
Shortcode: :bus:
Generally, the 🚌 emoji just means “bus”.
Where the 🚍 Oncoming Bus emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the oncoming bus to 2014.
Same character every time — U+1F68D 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.
Oncoming Bus was approved as U+1F68D and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.