Travel & Places · Emoji 1.0
🚠Mountain Cableway Emoji
Generally, the 🚠 emoji means a cable car or gondola lift. People use it to indicate they're talking about going up a mountain or enjoying a ride on one.
The 🚠 emoji represents a mountain cableway.
- Unicode
- U+1F6A0
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :mountain_
cableway: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🚠 Mountain Cableway emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
People also look for it as ski lift emoji, gondola lift emoji.
02 — Platforms
Mountain Cableway emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F6A0 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your mountain cableway 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
Mountain Cableway 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 :mountain_cableway:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the mountain cableway, code point U+1F6A0.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🚠 Mountain Cableway emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F6A0 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Mountain Cableway 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Mountain Cableway emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around mountain cableway 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 mountain cableway and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
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.
10 — Difference
🚠 vs 🚵♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Mountain Cableway
Code: U+1F6A0 · added 2015
Shortcode: :mountain_cableway:
Generally, the 🚠 emoji means a cable car or gondola lift.
Unicode name: Woman Mountain Biking
Code: U+1F6B5 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-mountain-biking:
Usually, it just means someone is talking about cycling or is a fan of mountain biking.
11 — History
Where the 🚠 Mountain Cableway emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F6A0 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.
Mountain Cableway was approved as U+1F6A0 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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.
12 — FAQ